AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 vs Intel Pentium Gold 7505

[ VERDICT ] Winner: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 (97/100)

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 leads overall with a score of 97/100 compared to Intel Pentium Gold 7505 (29/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2
AMD

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2

97/100
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Intel Pentium Gold 7505
Intel

Intel Pentium Gold 7505

29/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Intel Pentium Gold 7505
Efficiency 76.0 Good WINNER 54.0 Below Average
Performance 95.0 Excellent WINNER 39.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Intel Pentium Gold 7505
Base Frequency (P) 4.3 GHz 2.0 GHz
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
L1 Cache 80K (per core) 96K (per core)
L2 Cache 1MB (per core) 1256K (per core)
L3 Cache 192MB (shared) 4MB (shared)
Multiplier 43x 20x
P-Cores 16 2
P-Threads 32 4
Total Cores 16 2
Total Threads 32 4
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5.6 GHz 3.5 GHz
Unlocked Multiplier Yes No
Bus Bandwidth — 4 GT/s

Cinebench

Cinebench specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Intel Pentium Gold 7505
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) 10459 —
Cinebench 2026 (Single) 558 —

GeekBench v6

GeekBench v6 specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Intel Pentium Gold 7505
Background blur 90.2 images/sec 14.7 images/sec
Clang compilation 240.9 Klines/sec 16.5 Klines/sec
File compression 2030 MB/sec 255.8 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 460.9 pages/sec 63.5 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 570.9 Mpixels/sec 83.7 Mpixels/sec
Photo processing 160.1 images/sec 38.5 images/sec
Ray tracing 56.9 Mpixels/sec 2.96 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 361 pages/sec 117.8 pages/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Intel Pentium Gold 7505
Codename Zen 5 (Granite Ridge) Tiger Lake
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Integrated GPU Radeon Graphics UHD Graphics Xe G4 48 EUs
Model number 9950X3D2 7505
Released March 26, 2026 October 17, 2020
Type Desktop Laptop
Vendor Amd Intel

Memory Support

Memory Support specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Intel Pentium Gold 7505
ECC Support Yes No
Max. Memory Bandwidth 89.6 GB/s —
Max. Memory Size 256 GB 64 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Memory Types - DDR5-5600 - DDR4-3200- LPDDR4x-3733

Misc

Misc specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Intel Pentium Gold 7505
Official Site AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 official page Intel Pentium Gold 7505 official page
PCI Express Lanes 28 —
PCI Express Version 5.0 3.0

Package

Package specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Intel Pentium Gold 7505
Fabrication Process 4 nm 10 nm
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 270 W —
Peak Temperature 95°C 100°C
Socket AM5 BGA-1449
TDP (PL1) 200 W 15 W

Performance Per Watt

Performance Per Watt specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Intel Pentium Gold 7505
Blender / Watt 3.74 PPW 1.35 PPW
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 12.6 PPW —
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 135.6 PPW 190.9 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 363.9 PPW 344.1 PPW

iGPU

iGPU specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Intel Pentium Gold 7505
Execution Units 2 48
GPU Base Clock 400 MHz 400 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 2200 MHz 1250 MHz
Integrated Graphics Radeon Graphics Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 48 EUs
ROPs 4 12
Shading Units 128 384
TGP 15 W 15 W
TMUs 8 24

PassMark

PassMark specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Intel Pentium Gold 7505
Data compression — 55.7 MBytes/sec
Data encryption — 3 GBytes/sec
Extended instructions — 4.2B Matrices/sec
Find prime numbers — 19M Primes/sec
Floating point math — 9.1 GOps/sec
Integer math — 14.8 GOps/sec
Physics — 369 Frames/sec
Random string sorting — 6.8M Strings/sec

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