Comparing Intel Pentium Gold 8500 vs Intel Pentium Gold 8500

description_compare Intel Core i5-1245U and Intel Pentium Gold 8500

• Name
  Intel Core i5-1245U Intel Pentium Gold 8500
• Family
  Intel Core i5 Intel Pentium
• CPU group
  Intel Core i 1200P/1200U Intel Pentium Gold 8000
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  12 12
• Successor
  Intel Core i5-1345U --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

• CPU Cores / Threads
  10 / 12 5 / 6
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A-Core
  2x Golden Cove 1x Golden Cove
• B-Core
  8x Gracemont 4x Gracemont
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• A-Core Frequency
  1.60 GHz (4.40 GHz) 1.00 GHz (4.40 GHz)
• B-Core Frequency
  1.20 GHz (3.30 GHz) 0.70 GHz (3.30 GHz)

• GPU name
  Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80 (Alder Lake) Intel UHD Graphics 11th Gen (48 EU)
• GPU frequency
  0.35 GHz 0.20 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  1.20 GHz 0.80 GHz
• Execution units
  80 48
• Shader
  640 384
• Max. GPU Memory
  32 GB 64 GB
• Max. displays
  4 3
• Generation
  13 12
• Direct X
  12.1 12
• Technology
  10 nm 10 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2022 Q2/2020

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode Decode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  Decode Decode
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

• Memory type
  DDR4-3200, DDR5-4800, LPDDR4X-4266, LPDDR5-5200 DDR4-3200, DDR5-4800, LPDDR4X-4266, LPDDR5-5200
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 64 GB
• Memory channels
  4 (Quad Channel) 2 (Dual Channel)
• Bandwidth
  76.8 GB/s --
• ECC
  No No
• PCIe
  4.0 x 28 4.0 x 28
• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 9 W
• TDP (PL2)
  55 W 29 W
• Tjunction max.
  100 \xc2\xb0C 100 \xc2\xb0C

• Technology
  10 nm 10 nm
• Chip design
  Monolithic Monolithic
• Socket
  BGA 1744 BGA 1744
• L2-Cache
  6.50 MB 3.25 MB
• L3-Cache
  12.00 MB 8.00 MB
• Architecture
  Alder Lake U Alder Lake U
• 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
• Release date
  Q1/2022 Q1/2022
• Documents
  -- Technical data sheet