Ryzen 5 5600H vs Pentium Silver J5040

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium Silver J5040
2019
4 cores / 4 threads, 10 Watt
2.06
Ryzen 5 5600H
2021
6 cores / 12 threads, 45 Watt
10.73
+421%

Ryzen 5 5600H outperforms Pentium Silver J5040 by a whopping 421% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Pentium Silver J5040 and Ryzen 5 5600H processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking1893727
Place by popularitynot in top-10046
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.96no data
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Seriesno dataAMD Cezanne (Zen 3, Ryzen 5000)
Power efficiency19.4122.47
Architecture codenameGemini Lake Refresh (2019)Cezanne-H (Zen 3) (2021)
Release date4 November 2019 (5 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$161no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Pentium Silver J5040 and Ryzen 5 5600H 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)6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads412
Base clock speed2 GHz3.3 GHz
Boost clock speed3.2 GHz4.2 GHz
Multiplierno data33
L1 cache56 KB (per core)384 KB
L2 cache4 MB (shared)3 MB
L3 cache4 MB16 MB
Chip lithography14 nm7 nm
Die size93 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature105 °Cno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver J5040 and Ryzen 5 5600H 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 configuration1no data
SocketFCBGA1090FP6
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt45 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Ryzen 5 5600H. 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

Security technologies

Pentium Silver J5040 and Ryzen 5 5600H 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 J5040 and Ryzen 5 5600H 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 J5040 and Ryzen 5 5600H. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR4
Maximum memory size8 GBno data
Max memory channels2no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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Intel UHD Graphics 605AMD Radeon Vega 7
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 J5040 and Ryzen 5 5600H 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 J5040 and Ryzen 5 5600H 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 Ryzen 5 5600H integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12no data
OpenGL4.4no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Silver J5040 and Ryzen 5 5600H.

PCIe version2.0no data
PCI Express lanes6no data
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 J5040 2.06
Ryzen 5 5600H 10.73
+421%

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
Ryzen 5 5600H 16975
+422%

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
Ryzen 5 5600H 1602
+283%

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 1126
Ryzen 5 5600H 5778
+413%

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
Ryzen 5 5600H 5817
+116%

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
Ryzen 5 5600H 34229
+313%

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
Ryzen 5 5600H 11952
+178%

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
Ryzen 5 5600H 6.58
+132%

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
Ryzen 5 5600H 19
+435%

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
Ryzen 5 5600H 1563
+460%

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
Ryzen 5 5600H 223
+145%

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
Ryzen 5 5600H 2.62
+140%

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
Ryzen 5 5600H 7.4
+268%

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
Ryzen 5 5600H 95
+396%

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
Ryzen 5 5600H 251
+182%

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
Ryzen 5 5600H 7497
+439%

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Pentium Silver J5040 1672
Ryzen 5 5600H 6536
+291%

Blender(-)

Pentium Silver J5040 2060
+536%
Ryzen 5 5600H 324

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Pentium Silver J5040 538
Ryzen 5 5600H 1423
+164%

7-Zip Single

Pentium Silver J5040 2833
Ryzen 5 5600H 5359
+89.1%

7-Zip

Pentium Silver J5040 8946
Ryzen 5 5600H 44558
+398%

WebXPRT 3

Pentium Silver J5040 108
Ryzen 5 5600H 267
+147%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 2.06 10.73
Integrated graphics card 1.17 7.46
Recency 4 November 2019 12 January 2021
Physical cores 4 6
Threads 4 12
Chip lithography 14 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 45 Watt

Pentium Silver J5040 has 350% lower power consumption.

Ryzen 5 5600H, on the other hand, has a 420.9% higher aggregate performance score, 537.6% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 1 year, 50% more physical cores and 200% more threads, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

The Ryzen 5 5600H is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium Silver J5040 in performance tests.

Note that Pentium Silver J5040 is a desktop processor while Ryzen 5 5600H is a notebook one.


Should you still have questions on choice between Pentium Silver J5040 and Ryzen 5 5600H, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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