Celeron N4100 vs Pentium Silver N5000

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium Silver N5000
2017
4 cores / 4 threads, 6 Watt
1.54
Celeron N4100
2017
4 cores / 4 threads, 6 Watt
1.55
+0.6%

Celeron N4100 outperforms Pentium Silver N5000 by a minimal 1% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Pentium Silver N5000 and Celeron N4100 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking21212119
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Pentium SilverIntel Celeron
Power efficiency24.2924.45
Architecture codenameGoldmont Plus (2017)Goldmont Plus (2017)
Release date11 December 2017 (6 years ago)11 December 2017 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$161$107

Detailed specifications

Pentium Silver N5000 and Celeron N4100 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 speed1.1 GHz1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed2.7 GHz2.4 GHz
Multiplier1111
L1 cache56 KB (per core)256 KB
L2 cache4 MB (shared)4 MB
L3 cache4 MB4 MB
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Die size93 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature105 °C105 deg C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver N5000 and Celeron N4100 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)1 (Uniprocessor)
SocketFCBGA1090FCBGA1090
Power consumption (TDP)6 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and Celeron N4100. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI++
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

Pentium Silver N5000 and Celeron N4100 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

EDB++
Secure Key++
MPX++
Identity Protection++
SGXYes with Intel® MEYes with Intel® ME
OS Guard++
Anti-Theft--

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and Celeron N4100 are enumerated here.

VT-d++
VT-x++
EPT++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and Celeron N4100. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR4
Maximum memory size8 GB8 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/s38.397 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
Compare
Intel UHD Graphics 605Intel UHD Graphics 600
Max video memory8 GB8 GB
Quick Sync Video++
Graphics max frequency750 MHz700 MHz
Execution Units1812

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Silver N5000 and Celeron N4100 integrated GPUs.

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

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and Celeron N4100 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support++

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and Celeron N4100 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX1212
OpenGL4.44.4

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and Celeron N4100.

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 N5000 1.54
Celeron N4100 1.55
+0.6%

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 N5000 2442
Celeron N4100 2457
+0.6%

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 N5000 347
+12.3%
Celeron N4100 309

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 N5000 859
+3.9%
Celeron N4100 827

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 N5000 2295
+14%
Celeron N4100 2013

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 N5000 6688
+13.3%
Celeron N4100 5904

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 N5000 3320
+18.4%
Celeron N4100 2805

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 N5000 16.83
+15.3%
Celeron N4100 19.41

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 N5000 3
+28.4%
Celeron N4100 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 N5000 237
+19.4%
Celeron N4100 198

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 N5000 78
+13.7%
Celeron N4100 69

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 N5000 0.94
+13.3%
Celeron N4100 0.83

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 N5000 1.9
+11.8%
Celeron N4100 1.7

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 N5000 15
+30.5%
Celeron N4100 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 N5000 76
+31.1%
Celeron N4100 58

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 N5000 1245
+9.3%
Celeron N4100 1139

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Pentium Silver N5000 1582
+24.5%
Celeron N4100 1271

Blender(-)

Pentium Silver N5000 2707
Celeron N4100 3176
+17.3%

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Pentium Silver N5000 421
+4%
Celeron N4100 405

7-Zip Single

Pentium Silver N5000 2431
+12.7%
Celeron N4100 2158

7-Zip

Pentium Silver N5000 7320
+10.8%
Celeron N4100 6608

WebXPRT 3

Pentium Silver N5000 89
+18.5%
Celeron N4100 75

Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core

Pentium Silver N5000 5548
+10%
Celeron N4100 5042

Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core

Pentium Silver N5000 1778
+9.1%
Celeron N4100 1629

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit multi-core

Pentium Silver N5000 5488
+7.1%
Celeron N4100 5123

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit single-core

Pentium Silver N5000 2045
+12.1%
Celeron N4100 1825

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.54 1.55
Integrated graphics card 1.17 0.87

Pentium Silver N5000 has 34.5% faster integrated GPU.

Celeron N4100, on the other hand, has a 0.6% higher aggregate performance score.

Given the minimal performance differences, no clear winner can be declared between Pentium Silver N5000 and Celeron N4100.


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