Intel Pentium 8500 vs Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711). Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Family
  Intel Pentium Broadcom BCM
• CPU group
  Intel Pentium 8000 Broadcom BCM2711
• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Generation
  12 4

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) normal
• Frequency
  1.00 GHz 1.50 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.40 GHz No turbo
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No Yes

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  Intel UHD Graphics 11th Gen (48 EU) Broadcom VideoCore VI
• GPU frequency
  0.20 GHz 0.50 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.80 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  48 4
• Shader
  384 64
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3 2
• Generation
  12 6
• Technology
  10 nm 28 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2020 06/2019

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode Decode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode
• AV1
  Decode No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711) and Intel Pentium 8500. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-3200DDR5-4800LPDDR4X-4266LPDDR5-5200
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 8192 GB
• Memory channels
  2 1
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium 8500 and Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711) to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  9 W 7.5 W
• TDP (PL2)
  29 W --
• TDP down
  -- 3 W
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium 8500 and Intel Pentium 8500, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  3.25 MB 1.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  8.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Alder Lake U Cortex-A72
• Technology
  10 nm 28 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d None
• Socket
  BGA 1744 N/A
• Release date
  Q1/2022 06/2019