Pentium Silver N5000 vs Celeron N3350

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Aggregate performance score

Celeron N3350
2016
2 cores / 2 threads, 6 Watt
0.70
Pentium Silver N5000
2017
4 cores / 4 threads, 6 Watt
1.54
+120%

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms Celeron N3350 by a whopping 120% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Celeron N3350 and Pentium Silver N5000 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking27222134
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel CeleronIntel Pentium Silver
Power efficiency11.0424.29
Architecture codenameApollo Lake (2014−2016)Goldmont Plus (2017)
Release date30 August 2016 (8 years ago)11 December 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$24$161

Detailed specifications

Celeron N3350 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 speed1.1 GHz1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed2.4 GHz2.7 GHz
Multiplier1111
L1 cacheno data56 KB (per core)
L2 cache1 MB4 MB (shared)
L3 cache0 KB4 MB
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Die sizeno data93 mm2
Maximum core temperature105 °C105 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Celeron N3350 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)
SocketFCBGA1296FCBGA1090
Power consumption (TDP)6 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron N3350 and Pentium Silver N5000. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE4.2
AES-NI++
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shiftno data-
Turbo Boost Technology--
Hyper-Threading Technology--
Idle States++
Thermal Monitoring++
Smart Response--
GPIO++
Smart Connect-no data
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-
HD Audio+no data
RST-no data

Security technologies

Celeron N3350 and Pentium Silver N5000 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+no data
EDB++
Secure Boot+no data
Secure Key++
MPX++
Identity Protection++
SGXno dataYes with Intel® ME
OS Guard++
Anti-Theft--

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron N3350 and Pentium Silver N5000 are enumerated here.

VT-d++
VT-x++
VT-i-no data
EPT++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron N3350 and Pentium Silver N5000. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3, DDR4DDR4
Maximum memory size8 GB8 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidthno data38.397 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
Compare
Intel HD Graphics 500Intel UHD Graphics 605
Max video memory8 GB8 GB
Quick Sync Video++
Clear Video+no data
Clear Video HD+no data
Graphics max frequency650 MHz750 MHz
Execution Units1218

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Celeron N3350 and Pentium Silver N5000 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported33
eDP++
DisplayPort++
HDMI++
MIPI-DSI++

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Celeron N3350 and Pentium Silver N5000 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution supportno data+

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Celeron N3350 and Pentium Silver N5000 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX+12
OpenGL+4.4

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Celeron N3350 and Pentium Silver N5000.

PCIe version2.02.0
PCI Express lanes66
USB revision2.0/3.02.0/3.0
Total number of SATA ports22
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports22
Number of USB ports88
Integrated LAN--
UART++

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 N3350 0.70
Pentium Silver N5000 1.54
+120%

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 N3350 1106
Pentium Silver N5000 2442
+121%

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 N3350 253
Pentium Silver N5000 346
+36.8%

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 N3350 419
Pentium Silver N5000 860
+105%

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 N3350 1490
Pentium Silver N5000 2295
+54%

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 N3350 2654
Pentium Silver N5000 6688
+152%

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Celeron N3350 1655
Pentium Silver N5000 3320
+101%

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 N3350 45.5
Pentium Silver N5000 16.83
+170%

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 N3350 1
Pentium Silver N5000 3
+152%

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

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

Celeron N3350 85
Pentium Silver N5000 237
+178%

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 N3350 46
Pentium Silver N5000 78
+69.6%

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 N3350 0.59
Pentium Silver N5000 0.94
+59.3%

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 N3350 0.7
Pentium Silver N5000 1.9
+192%

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 N3350 616
Pentium Silver N5000 1245
+102%

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 N3350 6
Pentium Silver N5000 15
+148%

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 N3350 33
Pentium Silver N5000 76
+135%

Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core

Celeron N3350 2468
Pentium Silver N5000 5548
+125%

Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core

Celeron N3350 1328
Pentium Silver N5000 1778
+33.9%

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit multi-core

Celeron N3350 2589
Pentium Silver N5000 5488
+112%

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit single-core

Celeron N3350 1500
Pentium Silver N5000 2045
+36.3%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.70 1.54
Integrated graphics card 0.77 1.18
Recency 30 August 2016 11 December 2017
Physical cores 2 4
Threads 2 4

Pentium Silver N5000 has a 120% higher aggregate performance score, 53.2% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 1 year, and 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads.

The Pentium Silver N5000 is our recommended choice as it beats the Celeron N3350 in performance tests.


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