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Intel Pentium 997 vs Intel Core i5-7500

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 2 - 33 %
Intel Pentium 997
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i5-7500
Multi-core performance
Rank 2 - 16 %
Intel Pentium 997
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i5-7500
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

Intel Pentium 997
2C / 2T · 1.60 GHz
312
Intel Core i5-7500
4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz
961
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Intel Pentium 997
2C / 2T · 1.60 GHz
596
Intel Core i5-7500
4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz
3,091
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel Pentium 997
Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1)
96
Intel Core i5-7500
Intel HD Graphics 630
422

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At a glance

Wischen
Intel Pentium 997Intel Core i5-7500
FamilyIntel Pentium (150)Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU groupIntel Pentium 900 (10)Intel Core i 7000 (17)
ArchitectureSandy Bridge UKaby Lake S
Technology32 nm14 nm
SegmentNotebookDesktop
SocketBGA 1023LGA 1151
PredecessorIntel Core i5-6500
SuccessorIntel Core i5-8500

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Intel Pentium 997Intel Core i5-7500
CPU Cores / Threads2 / 24 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturenormalnormal
Cores: 2x 4x
Frequency: 1.60 GHz 3.40 GHz
Turbo (1 Core): 3.80 GHz
Turbo (All Cores): 3.60 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache2.00 MB6.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Intel Pentium 997Intel Core i5-7500
GPU nameIntel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1)Intel HD Graphics 630
GPU frequency0.35 - 1.00 GHz0.35 - 1.10 GHz
CUs / Shader6 / 4824 / 192
Raytracing
Max. displays23
Max. GPU Memory2 GB64 GB
Technology32 nm14 nm
Release dateQ2/2011Q2/2016

NPU AI performance

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Intel Pentium 997Intel Core i5-7500
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Intel Pentium 997Intel Core i5-7500
MemoryDDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)
DDR3-1066 (17.1 GB/s)
DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory16 GB64 GB
Memory channels22
ECCNoNo
PCIe2.0 x 163.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth8.0 GB/s15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

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Intel Pentium 997Intel Core i5-7500
TDP17 W65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.100 °C

Technical details

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Intel Pentium 997Intel Core i5-7500
Chip designMonolithicMonolithic
AES-NI
Operating systemsWindows 10, LinuxWindows 10, Linux
Instruction setx86-64 (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4.1, SSE4.2SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release dateQ3/2012Q1/2017
Release price220 $
DocumentsTechnical data sheetTechnical data sheet

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Intel Pentium 997
Intel Pentium 997
2C / 2T · 1.60 GHz
Intel Core i5-7500
Intel Core i5-7500
4C / 4T · 3.40 - 3.80 GHz

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