Athlon Gold 3150U vs Pentium Silver J5005

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium Silver J5005
2017
4 cores / 4 threads, 10 Watt
1.95
Athlon Gold 3150U
2020
2 cores / 4 threads, 15 Watt
2.51
+28.7%

Athlon Gold 3150U outperforms Pentium Silver J5005 by a significant 29% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Pentium Silver J5005 and Athlon Gold 3150U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking19401743
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.51no data
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
SeriesIntel Pentium SilverAMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Power efficiency18.4515.84
Architecture codenameGoldmont Plus (2017)Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date11 December 2017 (6 years ago)6 January 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$161no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Pentium Silver J5005 and Athlon Gold 3150U 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads44
Base clock speed1.5 GHz2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed2.8 GHz3.3 GHz
Multiplier1524
L1 cache56 KB (per core)192 KB
L2 cache256K (per core)1 MB
L3 cache4 MB (shared)4 MB
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Die size93 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature105 deg C95 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)72 °Cno data
Number of transistorsno data4500 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver J5005 and Athlon Gold 3150U 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)no data
SocketFCBGA1090FP5
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver J5005 and Athlon Gold 3150U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI++
FMA-+
AVX++
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Speed Shift-no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Smart Response-no data
GPIO+no data
Turbo Boost Max 3.0-no data
Precision Boost 2no data+

Security technologies

Pentium Silver J5005 and Athlon Gold 3150U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

EDB+no data
Secure Key+no data
MPX+-
Identity Protection+-
SGXYes with Intel® MEno data
OS Guard+no data
Anti-Theft-no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Silver J5005 and Athlon Gold 3150U are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+
VT-d+no data
VT-x+no data
EPT+no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Silver J5005 and Athlon Gold 3150U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesupto-2400DDR4
Maximum memory size8 GB32 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/s38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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Intel UHD Graphics 605AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 ( - 1000 MHz)
Max video memory8 GBno data
Quick Sync Video+-
Graphics max frequency800 MHzno data
Execution Units18no data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Silver J5005 and Athlon Gold 3150U integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported3no data
eDP+no data
DisplayPort+-
HDMI+-
MIPI-DSI+no data

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium Silver J5005 and Athlon Gold 3150U integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support+no data

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium Silver J5005 and Athlon Gold 3150U integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12no data
OpenGL4.4no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Silver J5005 and Athlon Gold 3150U.

PCIe version2.03.0
PCI Express lanes612
USB revision2.0/3.0no data
Total number of SATA ports2no data
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports2no data
Number of USB ports8no data
Integrated LAN-no data
UART+no 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.

Pentium Silver J5005 1.95
Athlon Gold 3150U 2.51
+28.7%

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.

Pentium Silver J5005 3103
Athlon Gold 3150U 3989
+28.6%

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.

Pentium Silver J5005 374
Athlon Gold 3150U 814
+118%

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.

Pentium Silver J5005 1086
Athlon Gold 3150U 1669
+53.7%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.95 2.51
Integrated graphics card 1.17 2.98
Recency 11 December 2017 6 January 2020
Physical cores 4 2
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 15 Watt

Pentium Silver J5005 has 100% more physical cores, and 50% lower power consumption.

Athlon Gold 3150U, on the other hand, has a 28.7% higher aggregate performance score, 154.7% faster integrated GPU, and an age advantage of 2 years.

The Athlon Gold 3150U is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium Silver J5005 in performance tests.

Note that Pentium Silver J5005 is a desktop processor while Athlon Gold 3150U is a notebook one.


Should you still have questions on choice between Pentium Silver J5005 and Athlon Gold 3150U, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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