Pentium Gold 7505: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Pentium Gold 7505 is an entry-level Tiger Lake chip from 2020 — two cores on the 10 nm process, built to hit the lowest price point that still felt modern. The catalog matches it to 17 models, and it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 17 of the 69 games the site tracks. This guide covers where the chip sits among laptop CPUs, what it brings to a portable, and which laptops carry it.

Where the Pentium Gold 7505 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 45.5 places the chip 295th of 672 scored laptop CPUs — the middle of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The neighborhood: the Core 3 100U (46), Core i7-4810MQ (45.8) and Core i7-7567U (45.6) just above, the Core i7-4800MQ (44.7), Core i5-7440HQ (44.7) and Ryzen 7 3750H (44.4) just below. A two-core Pentium scoring level with i7-branded parts of much older generations is the whole story — the per-core pace is modern, the core count is not.

What the chip brings

Tiger Lake-U is a 2-core, 4-thread design on Intel's 10 nm process, rated at 15 W in its U-class configuration: a 2 GHz base and up to 3.5 GHz boost. Memory support runs dual-channel DDR4 up to 64 GB, and the integrated Intel UHD Graphics for 11th Gen Intel Processors handles display duties. In public benchmarks the chip posts 1,331 single-core and 2,567 multi-core in Geekbench — the multi-core figure shows the two-core ceiling plainly.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 17 of 69 cataloged games — all of them older or lighter titles: Control, Forza Horizon 4, God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, Hitman 3, Grand Theft Auto V, Overwatch, Rainbow Six Siege, Batman: Arkham Knight and Civilization 6. Another 37 sit at the minimum tier: Minecraft, Valorant, League of Legends, Dota 2, Sims 4, Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Hogwarts Legacy all list the chip above their minimum but below their recommended CPU requirement. Fifteen games fall below even that, including Starfield, Helldivers 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, Fortnite, Apex Legends and Counter-Strike 2. These verdicts are CPU-only — whether a game actually plays well depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM, and with two cores the realistic play centers on the lightest titles in the list.

Laptops that carry it

The 17-model roster is budget territory, 2020–2022: Lenovo's IdeaPad 3i 15” and IdeaPad 3i Gen 6 (14") at $399 and the IdeaPad Flex 5 14” at $666; Dell's Inspiron 15 3520 (Intel) at $470, Vostro 14 3400 at $686 and Vostro 15 3520 at $780; HP's 250 G9 at $780, 250 G8 at $140, ProBook 440 G8 at $316 and ProBook 450 G8 at $410; plus the ASUS ExpertBook B1 (B1500) at $686 and ThinkPad L14 Gen 2 at $345. Roster medians describe the fleet, not the chip: office comfort at 95, performance at 51.8, mobility 59, portability 50.5 and energy efficiency 79.9 — while a gaming index of 44 reflects the laptops' GPU configurations rather than the processor.

Bottom line

The Pentium Gold 7505 is a basic office and web machine, honestly labeled: two cores handle documents, browsing, video calls and streaming, and nothing more ambitious. The 17 recommended-tier clearances are older, lighter games judged on CPU alone — pair them with realistic GPU expectations before counting on any of them. At the roster's used-market prices ($140 to $780), these laptops make sense as a first machine, a homework machine or a cheap secondary; buyers wanting headroom should step up to a Core i5-class listing.