Intel Pentium 8505 | Review

Launched in January of 2022, Intel Pentium 8505 is a low-end processor for laptops powered by one performance core with 2 threads and 4 efficiency cores with 4 threads. The performance core has a base clock of 1.2 GHz and a boost clock of 4.4 GHz the efficiency cores, on the other hand, have a base clock of 0.9GHz and a boost clock of 3.3GHz. Intel Pentium 8505 is based on the 10 nm architecture with this the 12th Gen CPUs see an average IPC gain of 19 percent the higher IPC allows the Alder lake CPUs more performance at the same clock speed. The TDP of this Chip as specified by intel is 15 watts and can go up to 55 Watts.

It also has support for new faster DDR5 memory of up to  4800MHz and low power LPDDR5 5200MHz while also supporting DDR4 memory of up to 3200MHz and low power LPDDR4X 4267MHz. Other Key Features Include Intel Iris Xe Graphics 48EUs (Alder Lake), and support for USB 4 (40Gbps).