Pentium Silver N5000 vs Celeron 3865U

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Aggregate performance score

Celeron 3865U
2017
2 cores / 2 threads, 15 Watt
0.83
Pentium Silver N5000
2017
4 cores / 4 threads, 6 Watt
1.54
+85.5%

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms Celeron 3865U by an impressive 86% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Celeron 3865U and Pentium Silver N5000 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking25802121
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel CeleronIntel Pentium Silver
Power efficiency5.2424.29
Architecture codenameKaby Lake-U (2017)Goldmont Plus (2017)
Release date3 January 2017 (7 years ago)11 December 2017 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$107$161

Detailed specifications

Celeron 3865U and Pentium Silver N5000 basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads24
Base clock speed1.8 GHz1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed1.8 GHz2.7 GHz
Bus typeOPIno data
Bus rate4 GT/sno data
Multiplier2211
L1 cache64K (per core)56 KB (per core)
L2 cache256K (per core)4 MB (shared)
L3 cache2 MB (shared)4 MB
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Die size98.7 mm293 mm2
Maximum core temperature100 °C105 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Celeron 3865U and Pentium Silver N5000 compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1 (Uniprocessor)1 (Uniprocessor)
SocketFCBGA1356,FPBGA1356FCBGA1090
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron 3865U and Pentium Silver N5000. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI++
AVX+-
vPro+no data
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shift+-
My WiFi+no data
Turbo Boost Technology--
Hyper-Threading Technology+-
Idle States++
Thermal Monitoring++
Flex Memory Access+no data
Smart Response+-
GPIOno data+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-

Security technologies

Celeron 3865U and Pentium Silver N5000 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-no data
EDB++
Secure Key++
MPX++
Identity Protection-+
SGXYes with Intel® MEYes with Intel® ME
OS Guard++
Anti-Theftno data-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron 3865U and Pentium Silver N5000 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-
VT-d++
VT-x++
EPT++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron 3865U and Pentium Silver N5000. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3, DDR4DDR4
Maximum memory size32 GB8 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidth34.134 GB/s38.397 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
Compare
Intel HD Graphics 610Intel UHD Graphics 605
Max video memory32 GB8 GB
Quick Sync Video++
Clear Video+no data
Clear Video HD+no data
Graphics max frequency900 MHz750 MHz
Execution Unitsno data18

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Celeron 3865U and Pentium Silver N5000 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported33
eDP++
DisplayPort++
HDMI++
DVI+no data
MIPI-DSIno data+

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Celeron 3865U and Pentium Silver N5000 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support++
Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096x2304@24Hzno data
Max resolution over eDP4096x2304@60Hzno data
Max resolution over DisplayPort4096x2304@60Hzno data

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Celeron 3865U and Pentium Silver N5000 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX1212
OpenGL4.44.4

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Celeron 3865U and Pentium Silver N5000.

PCIe version2.02.0
PCI Express lanes106
USB revisionno data2.0/3.0
Total number of SATA portsno data2
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Portsno data2
Number of USB portsno data8
Integrated LANno data-
UARTno data+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Celeron 3865U 0.83
Pentium Silver N5000 1.54
+85.5%

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Celeron 3865U 1321
Pentium Silver N5000 2442
+84.9%

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Celeron 3865U 393
+13.3%
Pentium Silver N5000 347

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Celeron 3865U 692
Pentium Silver N5000 859
+24.1%

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Celeron 3865U 2853
+24.3%
Pentium Silver N5000 2295

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Celeron 3865U 5425
Pentium Silver N5000 6688
+23.3%

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Celeron 3865U 39.36
Pentium Silver N5000 16.83
+134%

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Celeron 3865U 2
Pentium Silver N5000 3
+68.7%

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Celeron 3865U 142
Pentium Silver N5000 237
+66.5%

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Celeron 3865U 72
Pentium Silver N5000 78
+8.3%

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

Celeron 3865U 0.86
Pentium Silver N5000 0.94
+9.3%

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Celeron 3865U 0.8
Pentium Silver N5000 1.9
+135%

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Celeron 3865U 11
Pentium Silver N5000 15
+42.6%

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Celeron 3865U 54
Pentium Silver N5000 76
+40.3%

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Celeron 3865U 1108
Pentium Silver N5000 1245
+12.4%

Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core

Celeron 3865U 3224
Pentium Silver N5000 5548
+72.1%

Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core

Celeron 3865U 1843
+3.7%
Pentium Silver N5000 1778

Geekbench 2

Celeron 3865U 3627
Pentium Silver N5000 4819
+32.9%

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit multi-core

Celeron 3865U 3564
Pentium Silver N5000 5488
+54%

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit single-core

Celeron 3865U 2182
+6.7%
Pentium Silver N5000 2045

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.83 1.54
Integrated graphics card 1.85 1.17
Recency 3 January 2017 11 December 2017
Physical cores 2 4
Threads 2 4
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 6 Watt

Celeron 3865U has 58.1% faster integrated GPU.

Pentium Silver N5000, on the other hand, has a 85.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 11 months, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, and 150% lower power consumption.

The Pentium Silver N5000 is our recommended choice as it beats the Celeron 3865U in performance tests.


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