Atom C3958 vs Pentium Silver N5000

Primary details

Comparing Pentium Silver N5000 and Atom C3958 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking	2037	1633
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	0.54
Market segment	Laptop	Server
Series	Intel Pentium Silver	Intel Atom
Architecture codename	Goldmont Plus (2017)	Goldmont (2016−2017)
Release date	11 December 2017 (6 years ago)	15 August 2017 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$161	$449

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

Detailed specifications

Pentium Silver N5000 and Atom C3958 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 cores	4 (Quad-Core)	16 (Hexadeca-Core)
Threads	4	16
Boost clock speed	1.1 GHz	2 GHz
L1 cache	256 KB	896 KB
L2 cache	4 MB	16 MB
Chip lithography	14 nm	14 nm
Maximum core temperature	105 °C	83 °C
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	-
Unlocked multiplier	No	No

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver N5000 and Atom C3958 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 configuration	1 (Uniprocessor)	1 (Uniprocessor)
Socket	BGA1090	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	6 Watt	31 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and Atom C3958. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI	+	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and Atom C3958 are enumerated here.

VT-d	+	+
VT-x	+	+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and Atom C3958. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4	DDR3L-1600
Maximum memory size	8 GB	256 GB
Max memory channels	2	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	38.397 GB/s	38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support	-	+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

Intel UHD Graphics 605

no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and Atom C3958.

PCI Express lanes

6

16

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

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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.

Atom C3958 outperforms Pentium Silver N5000 by 75% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

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Pros & cons summary

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Performance score	1.58	2.77
Recency	11 December 2017	15 August 2017
Physical cores	4	16
Threads	4	16
Power consumption (TDP)	6 Watt	31 Watt

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