i7-12700 vs Pentium Gold 7505

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium Gold 7505
2020
2 cores / 4 threads, 15 Watt
3.27
Core i7-12700
2022
12 cores / 20 threads, 65 Watt
19.34
+491%

Core i7-12700 outperforms Pentium Gold 7505 by a whopping 491% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Pentium Gold 7505 and Core i7-12700 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking1596300
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesIntel Tiger Lakeno data
Power efficiency20.6228.14
Architecture codenameTiger Lake-U (2020)Alder Lake-S (2022)
Release date17 October 2020 (4 years ago)January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$349

Detailed specifications

Pentium Gold 7505 and Core i7-12700 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 cores2 (Dual-core)12 (Dodeca-Core)
Threads420
Base clock speed2 GHz2.1 GHz
Boost clock speed3.5 GHz4.9 GHz
Bus rate4 GT/sno data
L1 cache160 KB80 KB (per core)
L2 cache2.5 MB1.25 MB (per core)
L3 cache4 MB25 MB (shared)
Chip lithography10 nm SuperFinIntel 7 nm
Die sizeno data215 mm2
Maximum core temperature100 °C100 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Gold 7505 and Core i7-12700 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 configuration11
SocketFCBGA1449FCLGA1700
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt65 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Gold 7505 and Core i7-12700. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2
AES-NI++
FMA+-
AVX++
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shift++
Turbo Boost Technology2.02.0
Hyper-Threading Technology++
TSX-+
Idle States++
Thermal Monitoring++
SIPP-+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data+
Deep Learning Boost++

Security technologies

Pentium Gold 7505 and Core i7-12700 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-+
EDBno data+
Secure Keyno data+
SGX-no data
OS Guard++

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Gold 7505 and Core i7-12700 are enumerated here.

VT-d++
VT-x++
EPT++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Gold 7505 and Core i7-12700. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200
Maximum memory size64 GB128 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidthno data76.8 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
Compare
Intel UHD Graphics for 11th Gen Intel ProcessorsIntel UHD Graphics 770
Quick Sync Video++
Clear Video HD++
Graphics max frequency1.25 GHz1.5 GHz
Execution Units4832

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Gold 7505 and Core i7-12700 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported44

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium Gold 7505 and Core i7-12700 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096x2304@60Hz4096 x 2160 @ 60Hz
Max resolution over eDP4096x2304@60Hz5120 x 3200 @ 120Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPort7680x4320@60Hz7680 x 4320 @ 60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium Gold 7505 and Core i7-12700 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12.112
OpenGL4.64.5

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Gold 7505 and Core i7-12700.

PCIe versionno data5.0 and 4.0
PCI Express lanesno data20

Synthetic benchmark performance

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


Combined synthetic benchmark 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.

Pentium Gold 7505 3.27
i7-12700 19.34
+491%

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.

Pentium Gold 7505 5195
i7-12700 30722
+491%

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Pentium Gold 7505 1355
i7-12700 2414
+78.2%

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Pentium Gold 7505 2612
i7-12700 11195
+329%

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.

Pentium Gold 7505 6773
i7-12700 9171
+35.4%

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.

Pentium Gold 7505 14093
i7-12700 60892
+332%

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.

Pentium Gold 7505 4890
i7-12700 15390
+215%

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.

Pentium Gold 7505 14.48
i7-12700 2.9
+399%

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.

Pentium Gold 7505 4
i7-12700 37
+724%

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

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

Pentium Gold 7505 400
i7-12700 3151
+688%

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.

Pentium Gold 7505 165
i7-12700 272
+64.8%

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.

Pentium Gold 7505 1.93
i7-12700 3.28
+69.9%

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.

Pentium Gold 7505 2.4
i7-12700 14.5
+504%

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.

Pentium Gold 7505 2522
i7-12700 9328
+270%

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.  

Pentium Gold 7505 25
i7-12700 172
+592%

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.  

Pentium Gold 7505 131
i7-12700 347
+165%

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Pentium Gold 7505 2326
i7-12700 14961
+543%

Blender(-)

Pentium Gold 7505 1150
+662%
i7-12700 151

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Pentium Gold 7505 1129
i7-12700 1924
+70.4%

7-Zip Single

Pentium Gold 7505 4062
i7-12700 6292
+54.9%

7-Zip

Pentium Gold 7505 10756
i7-12700 78331
+628%

WebXPRT 3

Pentium Gold 7505 184
i7-12700 314
+70.3%

CrossMark Overall

Pentium Gold 7505 878
i7-12700 2016
+130%

WebXPRT 4 Overall

Pentium Gold 7505 143
i7-12700 268
+87.7%

Blender v3.3 Classroom CPU(-)

Pentium Gold 7505 2130
+780%
i7-12700 242

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 3.27 19.34
Integrated graphics card 5.58 6.16
Physical cores 2 12
Threads 4 20
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 65 Watt

Pentium Gold 7505 has 333.3% lower power consumption.

i7-12700, on the other hand, has a 491.4% higher aggregate performance score, 10.4% faster integrated GPU, and 500% more physical cores and 400% more threads.

The Core i7-12700 is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium Gold 7505 in performance tests.

Be aware that Pentium Gold 7505 is a notebook processor while Core i7-12700 is a desktop one.


Should you still have questions on choice between Pentium Gold 7505 and Core i7-12700, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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