Intel Pentium Gold 7505 vs Intel Xeon E5-520

Compare Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 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

0.12% slightly better overall score

1676 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3356 points

35% slightly better gaming score

2485 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1245 points

1418 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1193 points

1363 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.38 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

21.48 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2566 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1430 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1330 points

267% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

362 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

38% slightly higher turbo speed

2.53 GHz

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

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

144 GiB

125% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

779th of 1,089

780th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 November

2009 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Pentium Gold 7505 vs Xeon E5-520 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Gold 7505 performs better than the Xeon E5-520. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-520 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-520 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold 7505 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. A Pentium Gold 7505 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-520 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.