Pentium Silver A1030: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Pentium Silver A1030 provides poor benchmark performance at 0.86% of a leader's which is a 192-core EPYC 9965.
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Summary
Intel started Pentium Silver A1030 sales 1 July 2020. This is a notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2700 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is FCBGA1090 processor with a TDP of 15 Watt. It supports upto-2400 memory.
Primary details
Pentium Silver A1030 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 2753 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Power efficiency | 2.22 | of 100.00 (Apple M4 (8 cores)) |
| Designer | Intel | |
| Release date | 1 July 2020 (4 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 2 (Dual-core) | |
| Threads | 2 | |
| Base clock speed | 2 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (Ryzen 9 7900X) |
| Boost clock speed | 2.7 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L3 cache | 4 MB | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 14 nm | of 3 nm (EPYC 9965) |
| Maximum core temperature | 105 deg C | of 110 °C (Core Ultra 7 265H) |
| 64 bit support | + |
Compatibility
Information on Pentium Silver A1030 compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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 configuration | 1 | of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H) |
| Socket | FCBGA1090 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | of 500 Watt (EPYC 9965) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver A1030. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | Intel® SSE4.2 | |
| AES-NI | + | |
| vPro | - | |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | |
| Speed Shift | - | |
| Turbo Boost Technology | - | |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | - | |
| Idle States | + | |
| Thermal Monitoring | + | |
| Smart Response | - | |
| GPIO | + | |
| Turbo Boost Max 3.0 | - |
Security technologies
Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| EDB | + | |
| Secure Key | + | |
| MPX | + | |
| Identity Protection | + | |
| SGX | Yes with Intel® ME | |
| OS Guard | + | |
| Anti-Theft | - |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| VT-d | + | |
| VT-x | + | |
| EPT | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Pentium Silver A1030's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | upto-2400 | |
| Maximum memory size | 8 GB | of 6 TiB (EPYC 9654) |
| Max memory channels | 2 | of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221) |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Pentium Silver A1030.
| Max video memory | 8 GB | |
| Quick Sync Video | + | |
| Graphics max frequency | 700 GHz | |
| Execution Units | 12 |
Graphics interfaces
Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Silver A1030's integrated GPU.
| Number of displays supported | 3 | |
| eDP | + | |
| DisplayPort | + | |
| HDMI | + | |
| MIPI-DSI | + |
Graphics image quality
Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium Silver A1030's integrated GPU, including resolutions over different interfaces.
| 4K resolution support | + |
Graphics API support
APIs supported by Pentium Silver A1030's integrated GPU, sometimes API versions are included.
| DirectX | 12 | |
| OpenGL | 4.4 |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 2.0 | of 5.0 (EPYC 9965) |
| PCI Express lanes | 6 | of 144 (Threadripper PRO 7955WX) |
| USB revision | 2.0/3.0 | |
| Total number of SATA ports | 2 | |
| Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports | 2 | |
| Number of USB ports | 8 | |
| Integrated LAN | - | |
| UART | + |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Pentium Silver A1030. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating.
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. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-core performance.
Send your test results of Pentium Silver A1030.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Pentium Silver A1030 is A6-3430MX, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 4 positions in our ranking.
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Similar processors
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Pentium Silver A1030, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Pentium Silver A1030 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 5 configurations using Pentium Silver A1030 in our database.
