Intel Pentium Gold 7505 vs Intel Xeon X3450

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
1719 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3356 points
21% slightly better gaming score
2768 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1245 points
1407 points
13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1193 points
1350 points
13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.38 points
39.82 points
50% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2566 points
76% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1454 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1330 points
207% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
432 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
9% slightly higher turbo speed
3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
533% significantly lower TDP
95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
770th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 November
2009 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Pentium Gold 7505 vs Xeon X3450 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon X3450 performs better than the Pentium Gold 7505. Despite this, the Pentium Gold 7505 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon X3450 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium Gold 7505 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold 7505. A Pentium Gold 7505 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X3450 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Pentium Gold 7505 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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