Intel Pentium Gold 4415U vs AMD FX-7500

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AMD FX-7500
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Games supported 77%

General info

Comparing FX-7500 and Pentium Gold 4415U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance rating15611553
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD KaveriIntel Pentium Gold
Architecture codenameKaveri (2014−2015)Kaby Lake (2016−2019)
Release date4 June 2014 (8 years old)1 March 2017 (6 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$161
Current price$267 $402 (2.5x MSRP)

Technical specs

FX-7500 and Pentium Gold 4415U basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores4 (Quad-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads44
Base clock speed2.1 GHzno data
Boost clock speed3.3 GHz2.3 GHz
L1 cacheno data128 KB
L2 cache4096 KB512 KB
L3 cacheno data2 MB
Chip lithography28 nm14 nm
Die size245 mm2no data
Number of transistors2410 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--
Unlocked multiplierno data-

Compatibility

Information on FX-7500 and Pentium Gold 4415U compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configurationno data1 (Uniprocessor)
SocketFP3BGA
Thermal design power (TDP)19 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by FX-7500 and Pentium Gold 4415U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions86x SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2, 4A),-64, AES, AVX, FMA, DDR3-1600 Controllerno data
AES-NI++
FMA+no data
AVX++
FRTC1no data
PowerTune-no data
TrueAudio+no data
PowerNow+no data
PowerGating+no data
Out-of-band client management+no data
VirusProtect+no data
HSA1no data
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by FX-7500 and Pentium Gold 4415U are enumerated here.

AMD-V1+
VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
IOMMU 2.0+no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by FX-7500 and Pentium Gold 4415U. Depending on the motherboards, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3-1600DDR3, DDR4
Maximum memory sizeno data32 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidthno data34.134 GB/s
ECC memory supportno data-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon R7 Graphics-
iGPU core count6-
Enduro+-
Switchable graphics1-
UVD+-
VCE+-

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of FX-7500 and Pentium Gold 4415U integrated GPUs.

DisplayPort+-
HDMI+-

Graphics API support

APIs supported by FX-7500 and Pentium Gold 4415U integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXDirectX® 12-
Vulkan1-

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by FX-7500 and Pentium Gold 4415U.

PCIe version3.02.0
PCI Express lanesno data10

Benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

FX-7500 2.55
Pentium Gold 4415U 2.56
+0.4%
  • Passmark
  • Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core
  • Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core
  • 3DMark06 CPU
  • wPrime 32
  • Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core
  • Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core
  • Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core
  • Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core
  • TrueCrypt AES
  • WinRAR 4.0
  • x264 encoding pass 2
  • x264 encoding pass 1
  • Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core
  • Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core
  • Geekbench 2

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Benchmark coverage: 67%

FX-7500 3209
Pentium Gold 4415U 3229
+0.6%

Pentium Gold 4415U outperforms FX-7500 by 1% in Passmark.

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Benchmark coverage: 20%

FX-7500 2060
Pentium Gold 4415U 3587
+74.1%

Pentium Gold 4415U outperforms FX-7500 by 74% in Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core.

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

FX-7500 5482
Pentium Gold 4415U 8169
+49%

Pentium Gold 4415U outperforms FX-7500 by 49% in Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core.

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

FX-7500 2771
Pentium Gold 4415U 3249
+17.3%

Pentium Gold 4415U outperforms FX-7500 by 17% in 3DMark06 CPU.

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Benchmark coverage: 18%

FX-7500 23.32
Pentium Gold 4415U 20.86
+11.8%

FX-7500 outperforms Pentium Gold 4415U by 12% in wPrime 32.

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

FX-7500 2
Pentium Gold 4415U 3
+57.6%

Pentium Gold 4415U outperforms FX-7500 by 58% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core.

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

FX-7500 153
Pentium Gold 4415U 240
+56.5%

Pentium Gold 4415U outperforms FX-7500 by 57% in Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core.

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

FX-7500 55
Pentium Gold 4415U 94
+70.9%

Pentium Gold 4415U outperforms FX-7500 by 71% in Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core.

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

FX-7500 0.7
Pentium Gold 4415U 1
+55.4%

Pentium Gold 4415U outperforms FX-7500 by 55% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core.

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

FX-7500 1
Pentium Gold 4415U 1
+27.3%

Pentium Gold 4415U outperforms FX-7500 by 27% in TrueCrypt AES.

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Benchmark coverage: 12%

FX-7500 1479
Pentium Gold 4415U 2003
+35.5%

Pentium Gold 4415U outperforms FX-7500 by 35% in WinRAR 4.0.

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Benchmark coverage: 12%

FX-7500 14
Pentium Gold 4415U 16
+15.1%

Pentium Gold 4415U outperforms FX-7500 by 15% in x264 encoding pass 2.

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Benchmark coverage: 12%

FX-7500 69
Pentium Gold 4415U 86
+25.1%

Pentium Gold 4415U outperforms FX-7500 by 25% in x264 encoding pass 1.

Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core

Benchmark coverage: 6%

FX-7500 4116
Pentium Gold 4415U 5270
+28%

Pentium Gold 4415U outperforms FX-7500 by 28% in Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core.

Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core

Benchmark coverage: 6%

FX-7500 1769
Pentium Gold 4415U 2510
+41.9%

Pentium Gold 4415U outperforms FX-7500 by 42% in Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core.

Geekbench 2

Benchmark coverage: 5%

FX-7500 4730
Pentium Gold 4415U 5719
+20.9%

Pentium Gold 4415U outperforms FX-7500 by 21% in Geekbench 2.

Gaming performance

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance rating 2.55 2.56
Recency 4 June 2014 1 March 2017
Boost clock speed 3300 2300
Base clock speed 2100 0
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Thermal design power (TDP) 19 Watt 15 Watt

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Competitors of FX-7500 by Intel

We believe that the nearest equivalent to FX-7500 by Intel is Core i7-4600M, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our rating.

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Competitors of Pentium Gold 4415U by AMD

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Pentium Gold 4415U from AMD is FX-7500, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 8 positions in our rating.

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Here are some closest AMD rivals to Pentium Gold 4415U:

Ryzen 3 3200U 119.53
Ryzen 3 2200U 110.94
FX-9830P 103.13
Pentium Gold 4415U 100
FX-7500 99.61
A10-5757M 95.7

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