Intel Pentium Gold 8505 vs Intel Core i7-7700HQ. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Intel Pentium Intel Core i7
• CPU group
  Intel Pentium Gold 8000 Intel Core i 7000H
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  12 7
• Predecessor
  Intel Pentium Gold 7505 --

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
• Overclocking
  No No

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) Intel HD Graphics 630
• GPU frequency
  0.20 GHz 0.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  1.10 GHz 1.10 GHz
• Execution units
  48 24
• Shader
  384 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  64 GB 64 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  12 9.5
• Technology
  10 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2020 Q2/2016

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-7700HQ and Intel Pentium Gold 8505. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-3200DDR5-4800LPDDR4X-4266LPDDR5-5200 DDR4-2400 SO-DIMM
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 64 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 2
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium Gold 8505 and Intel Core i7-7700HQ to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL2)
  55 W --
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium Gold 8505 and Intel Pentium Gold 8505, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Technology
  10 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1744 BGA 1440
• L2-Cache
  3.25 MB --
• L3-Cache
  8.00 MB 6.00 MB
• Architecture
  Alder Lake U Kaby Lake H
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• Release date
  Q1/2022 Q1/2017