Intel Pentium Gold 7505 vs Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3

Compare Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1678 points

2675 points

59% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3356 points

4187 points

24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1245 points

2229 points

79% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1193 points

2142 points

79% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.38 points

65.17 points

147% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2566 points

3756 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1330 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1192 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

3.8 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

433% significantly lower TDP

80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

779th of 1,089

598th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 November

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Pentium Gold 7505 vs Xeon E3-1231 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1231 v3 beats the Pentium Gold 7505 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium Gold 7505 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E3-1231 v3 has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold 7505. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1231 v3 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold 7505. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold 7505. A Pentium Gold 7505 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1231 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Pentium Gold 7505 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.