Pentium Gold 7505 vs Phenom II X3 P840
Aggregate performance score
Pentium Gold 7505 outperforms Phenom II X3 P840 by a whopping 299% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Primary details
Comparing Phenom II X3 P840 and Pentium Gold 7505 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | 2582 | 1587 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Series | 3x AMD Phenom II | Intel Tiger Lake |
| Power efficiency | 3.10 | 20.63 |
| Architecture codename | Champlain (2010−2011) | Tiger Lake-U (2020) |
| Release date | 4 October 2010 (14 years ago) | 17 October 2020 (4 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Phenom II X3 P840 and Pentium Gold 7505 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 cores | 3 (Tri-Core) | 2 (Dual-core) |
| Threads | 3 | 4 |
| Base clock speed | no data | 2 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1.9 GHz | 3.5 GHz |
| Bus rate | 3600 MHz | 4 GT/s |
| L1 cache | 384 KB | 160 KB |
| L2 cache | 1.5 MB | 2.5 MB |
| L3 cache | no data | 4 MB |
| Chip lithography | 45 nm | 10 nm SuperFin |
| Maximum core temperature | no data | 100 °C |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | + |
Compatibility
Information on Phenom II X3 P840 and Pentium Gold 7505 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 configuration | no data | 1 |
| Socket | S1 | FCBGA1449 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 25 Watt | 15 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Phenom II X3 P840 and Pentium Gold 7505. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | Virtualization, AMD64, Advanced Virus Protection, SSE(1,2,3,4a) | Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2 |
| AES-NI | - | + |
| FMA | - | + |
| AVX | - | + |
| VirusProtect | + | - |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | no data | + |
| Speed Shift | no data | + |
| Turbo Boost Technology | no data | 2.0 |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | no data | + |
| Idle States | no data | + |
| Thermal Monitoring | - | + |
| Deep Learning Boost | - | + |
Security technologies
Phenom II X3 P840 and Pentium Gold 7505 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| TXT | no data | - |
| SGX | no data | - |
| OS Guard | no data | + |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Phenom II X3 P840 and Pentium Gold 7505 are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | + | - |
| VT-d | no data | + |
| VT-x | no data | + |
| EPT | no data | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Phenom II X3 P840 and Pentium Gold 7505. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3 | DDR4 |
| Maximum memory size | no data | 64 GB |
| Max memory channels | no data | 2 |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
| Integrated graphics card | no data | Intel® UHD Graphics for 11th Gen Intel® Processors |
| Quick Sync Video | - | + |
| Clear Video HD | no data | + |
| Graphics max frequency | no data | 1.25 GHz |
| Execution Units | no data | 48 |
Graphics interfaces
Available interfaces and connections of Phenom II X3 P840 and Pentium Gold 7505 integrated GPUs.
| Number of displays supported | no data | 4 |
Graphics image quality
Maximum display resolutions supported by Phenom II X3 P840 and Pentium Gold 7505 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.
| Max resolution over HDMI 1.4 | no data | 4096x2304@60Hz |
| Max resolution over eDP | no data | 4096x2304@60Hz |
| Max resolution over DisplayPort | no data | 7680x4320@60Hz |
Graphics API support
APIs supported by Phenom II X3 P840 and Pentium Gold 7505 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.
| DirectX | no data | 12.1 |
| OpenGL | no data | 4.6 |
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.
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.
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.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 0.82 | 3.27 |
| Recency | 4 October 2010 | 17 October 2020 |
| Physical cores | 3 | 2 |
| Threads | 3 | 4 |
| Chip lithography | 45 nm | 10 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 25 Watt | 15 Watt |
Phenom II X3 P840 has 50% more physical cores.
Pentium Gold 7505, on the other hand, has a 298.8% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 10 years, 33.3% more threads, a 350% more advanced lithography process, and 66.7% lower power consumption.
The Pentium Gold 7505 is our recommended choice as it beats the Phenom II X3 P840 in performance tests.
Should you still have questions on choice between Phenom II X3 P840 and Pentium Gold 7505, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.
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