Pentium N4200 vs Pentium Silver J5040

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium Silver J5040
2019
4 cores / 4 threads, 10 Watt
2.05
+49.6%
Pentium N4200
2016
4 cores / 4 threads, 6 Watt
1.37

Pentium Silver J5040 outperforms Pentium N4200 by an impressive 50% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Pentium Silver J5040 and Pentium N4200 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking18952231
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.98no data
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Seriesno dataIntel Pentium
Power efficiency19.4021.61
Architecture codenameGemini Lake Refresh (2019)Apollo Lake (2014−2016)
Release date4 November 2019 (5 years ago)1 September 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$161$161

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Pentium Silver J5040 and Pentium N4200 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)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads44
Base clock speed2 GHz1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed3.2 GHz2.5 GHz
L1 cache56 KB (per core)no data
L2 cache4 MB (shared)2 MB
L3 cache4 MB2 MB L2 Cache
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Die size93 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature105 °C105 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility+-

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver J5040 and Pentium N4200 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 configuration11
SocketFCBGA1090FCBGA1296
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Pentium N4200. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2no data
AES-NI++
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shift-no data
Turbo Boost Technology--
Hyper-Threading Technology--
Idle States++
Thermal Monitoring++
Smart Response--
GPIO++
Smart Connectno data-
Turbo Boost Max 3.0-no data
HD Audiono data+
RSTno data-

Security technologies

Pentium Silver J5040 and Pentium N4200 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
EDB++
Secure Bootno data+
Secure Key++
MPX++
Identity Protection++
SGXYes with Intel® MEno data
OS Guard++
Anti-Theft--

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Pentium N4200 are enumerated here.

VT-d++
VT-x++
VT-ino data-
EPT++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Pentium N4200. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR3, DDR3, DDR4
Maximum memory size8 GB8 GB
Max memory channels22

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
Compare
Intel UHD Graphics 605Intel HD Graphics 505
Max video memory8 GB8 GB
Quick Sync Video++
Clear Videono data+
Clear Video HDno data+
Graphics max frequency800 MHz750 MHz
Execution Units1818

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Silver J5040 and Pentium N4200 integrated GPUs.

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

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Pentium N4200 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support+no data
Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096x2160@30Hzno data
Max resolution over eDP4096x2160@60Hzno data
Max resolution over DisplayPort4096x2160@60Hzno data

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Pentium N4200 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12+
OpenGL4.4+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Pentium N4200.

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.

Pentium Silver J5040 2.05
+49.6%
Pentium N4200 1.37

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 J5040 3255
+49.8%
Pentium N4200 2173

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 J5040 418
+52%
Pentium N4200 275

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 J5040 1124
+56.1%
Pentium N4200 720

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.

Pentium Silver J5040 2688
+62.6%
Pentium N4200 1653

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.

Pentium Silver J5040 8279
+58.7%
Pentium N4200 5217

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.

Pentium Silver J5040 4296
+63%
Pentium N4200 2636

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.

Pentium Silver J5040 15.29
+47.7%
Pentium N4200 22.58

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.

Pentium Silver J5040 3
+67%
Pentium N4200 2

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

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

Pentium Silver J5040 279
+71.2%
Pentium N4200 163

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.

Pentium Silver J5040 91
+75%
Pentium N4200 52

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.

Pentium Silver J5040 1.09
+67.7%
Pentium N4200 0.65

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.

Pentium Silver J5040 2
+42.9%
Pentium N4200 1.4

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.  

Pentium Silver J5040 19
+59.7%
Pentium N4200 12

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.  

Pentium Silver J5040 89
+48.5%
Pentium N4200 60

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.

Pentium Silver J5040 1391
+47.4%
Pentium N4200 944

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 2.05 1.37
Integrated graphics card 1.17 0.94
Recency 4 November 2019 1 September 2016
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 6 Watt

Pentium Silver J5040 has a 49.6% higher aggregate performance score, 24.5% faster integrated GPU, and an age advantage of 3 years.

Pentium N4200, on the other hand, has 66.7% lower power consumption.

The Pentium Silver J5040 is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium N4200 in performance tests.

Note that Pentium Silver J5040 is a desktop processor while Pentium N4200 is a notebook one.


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