Intel Pentium Gold 8505 vs Intel Core i9-12900HX. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Intel Pentium Intel Core i9
• CPU group
  Intel Pentium Gold 8000 Intel Core i 12000H
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  12 12
• 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.

• CPU Cores / Threads
  5 / 6 16 / 24
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A-Core
  1x Golden Cove 8x Golden Cove
• B-Core
  4x Gracemont 8x Gracemont
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• A-Core Frequency
  1.20 GHz (4.40 GHz) 2.30 GHz (5.00 GHz)
• B-Core Frequency
  0.90 GHz (3.30 GHz) 1.70 GHz (3.60 GHz)

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 UHD Graphics 770
• GPU frequency
  0.20 GHz 0.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  1.10 GHz 1.55 GHz
• Execution units
  48 32
• Shader
  384 256
• Max. GPU Memory
  64 GB 64 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  12 11
• Direct X
  12 12
• Technology
  10 nm 10 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2020 Q4/2021

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 Decode
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i9-12900HX and Intel Pentium Gold 8505. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-3200DDR5-4800LPDDR4X-4266LPDDR5-5200 DDR4-3200DDR5-4800LPDDR4X-4266LPDDR5-5200
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 128 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 2 (Dual Channel)
• Bandwidth
  76.8 GB/s 76.8 GB/s
• ECC
  No No
• PCIe
  4.0 x 20 5.0 x 20
• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium Gold 8505 and Intel Core i9-12900HX to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL2)
  55 W 157 W
• TDP up
  -- 86 W
• TDP down
  -- 45 W
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C 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 10 nm
• Chip design
  Monolithic Monolithic
• Socket
  BGA 1744 BGA 1744
• L2-Cache
  3.25 MB 14.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  8.00 MB 30.00 MB
• Architecture
  Alder Lake U Alder Lake H
• Operating systems
  Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
• 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, AVX2+
• Release date
  Q1/2022 Q2/2022
• Release price
  193 $ 606 $
• Documents
  Technical data sheet Technical data sheet