Xeon Gold 5220S vs Pentium Silver N5000

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Primary details

Comparing Pentium Silver N5000 and Xeon Gold 5220S processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2113not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopServer
SeriesIntel Pentium SilverIntel Xeon Gold
Power efficiency24.32no data
Architecture codenameGoldmont Plus (2017)Cascade Lake (2019−2020)
Release date11 December 2017 (6 years ago)2 April 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$161$2,000

Detailed specifications

Pentium Silver N5000 and Xeon Gold 5220S 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)18 (Octadeca-Core)
Threads436
Base clock speed1.1 GHz2.7 GHz
Boost clock speed2.7 GHz3.9 GHz
Bus typeno dataDMI 3.0
Bus rateno data4 × 8 GT/s
Multiplier1127
L1 cache56 KB (per core)1.125 MB
L2 cache4 MB (shared)18 MB
L3 cache4 MB24.75 MB
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Die size93 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature105 °C87 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver N5000 and Xeon Gold 5220S 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)4 (Multiprocessor)
SocketFCBGA1090FCLGA3647
Power consumption (TDP)6 Watt125 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and Xeon Gold 5220S. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512
AES-NI++
AVX-+
vProno data+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shift-+
Turbo Boost Technology-2.0
Hyper-Threading Technology-+
TSX-+
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Smart Response-no data
GPIO+no data
Turbo Boost Max 3.0--
Deep Learning Boost-+

Security technologies

Pentium Silver N5000 and Xeon Gold 5220S technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+
EDB++
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 N5000 and Xeon Gold 5220S are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and Xeon Gold 5220S. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR4-2667
Maximum memory size8 GB1 TB
Max memory channels26
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/s128.001 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardIntel UHD Graphics 605no data
Max video memory8 GBno data
Quick Sync Video+-
Graphics max frequency750 MHzno data
Execution Units18no data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Silver N5000 and Xeon Gold 5220S 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 N5000 and Xeon Gold 5220S integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support+no data

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and Xeon Gold 5220S integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12no data
OpenGL4.4no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and Xeon Gold 5220S.

PCIe version2.03.0
PCI Express lanes648
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

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 December 2017 2 April 2019
Physical cores 4 18
Threads 4 36
Power consumption (TDP) 6 Watt 125 Watt

Pentium Silver N5000 has 1983.3% lower power consumption.

Xeon Gold 5220S, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and 350% more physical cores and 800% more threads.

We couldn't decide between Pentium Silver N5000 and Xeon Gold 5220S. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Pentium Silver N5000 is a notebook processor while Xeon Gold 5220S is a server/workstation one.


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