At the beginning of September, Intel officially presented the first processors 11 generation for laptops called Tiger Lake. The new Intel Core units offer higher performance and a completely new integrated graphics chip Intel Iris Xe Graphics – today you will read our premiere article about one of such processors. Meanwhile, it is known for a long time that Intel is preparing not only more powerful Core systems, but cheaper, weaker and above all cheaper Pentium Gold and Celeron for the cheapest notebooks. The manufacturer has prepared two new units based on the Willow Cove architecture and belonging to 11 Tiger Lake generation. I am talking about Intel Pentium Gold 7505 and Intel Celeron 6305. What are the characteristics of processors compared to their predecessors?

Intel presented two more processors belonging to the Tiger Lake family. I am talking about budget Pentium Gold units 7505 and Celeron 6305.

Intel Pentium Gold 7505 is a 2-core and 4-thread processor. On the other hand, the cheapest Intel Celeron 6305 is still a 2-core and 2-thread unit, without support for Intel Hyper- Threading. However, the processors have new Willow Cove cores, which should still improve performance, especially single-threaded. We expect Intel Pentium Gold 7505 and Celeron 6305 will be placed in very cheap laptops, often below PLN 2,000. The table below presents the specification of CPU units.

Specification	Intel Pentium Gold 7505	Intel Pentium Gold 6405 U	Intel Celeron 6305	Intel Celeron 5305 U
Architecture	Willow Cove	Skylake	Willow Cove	Skylake
Family	Tiger Lake	Comet Lake -U	Tiger Lake	Comet Lake-U
Lithography	10 nm SuperFin	14 nm	10 nm SuperFin	14 nm
Number of cores / threads	2C / 4T	2C / 4T	2C / 2T	2C / 2T
Base clock	2 GHz	2.4 GHz	1.8 GHz	2.3 GHz
Boost Timer	3.5 GHz	–	–	–
RAM controller	DDR4 3200 MHz LPDDR4x 3733 MHz	DDR4 2400 MHz LPDDR3 2133 MHz	DDR4 3200 MHz LPDDR4x 3733 MHz	DDR4 2400 MHz LPDDR3 2133 MHz
Cache L3	4MB	2 MB	4 MB	2 MB
Graphics layout	Intel UHD Graphics	Intel UHD Graphics 610	Intel UHD Graphics	Intel UHD Graphics 610
TDP	15 In	15 W	15 In	15 In

As you can see, Intel Pentium Gold is the best 7505, which got support for Intel Turbo Boost 2.0 technology, thus achieving the maximum clock speed of 3.5 GHz. The weaker of the Tiger Lake systems – Celeron 6305 – unfortunately no longer supports Turbo. The new processors also got a newer memory controller, now supporting DDR4 memory 3200 MHz and LPDDR4x 3733 MHz. However, none of the chipsets have an integrated Xe-based graphics chip. Like the Core i3 – 1115 G4, it is a weaker Intel UHD Graphics unit. All processors have standard TDP of 15 W.

Source: Intel