Pentium Gold G7400E vs Pentium Silver N5030

Primary details

Comparing Pentium Silver N5030 and Pentium Gold G7400E processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2072not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesIntel Gemini Lakeno data
Power efficiency25.71no data
Architecture codenameGemini Lake Refresh (2019)Alder Lake-S (2022)
Release date4 November 2019 (5 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium Silver N5030 and Pentium Gold G7400E 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)2 (Dual-core)
Threads44
Base clock speed1.1 GHz3.6 GHz
Boost clock speed3.1 GHz3.6 GHz
L1 cacheno data80K (per core)
L2 cache4 MB1.25 MB (per core)
L3 cache4 MB6 MB (shared)
Chip lithography14 nm10 nm
Maximum core temperature105 °Cno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver N5030 and Pentium Gold G7400E 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
SocketFCBGA10901700
Power consumption (TDP)6 Watt46 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver N5030 and Pentium Gold G7400E. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

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

Security technologies

Pentium Silver N5030 and Pentium Gold G7400E technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+
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 N5030 and Pentium Gold G7400E are enumerated here.

VT-d++
VT-x++
EPT+no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Silver N5030 and Pentium Gold G7400E. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR4, DDR5 Dual-channel
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 605Intel UHD Graphics 710
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 N5030 and Pentium Gold G7400E 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 N5030 and Pentium Gold G7400E 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 N5030 and Pentium Gold G7400E integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12no data
OpenGL4.4no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Silver N5030 and Pentium Gold G7400E.

PCIe version2.05.0
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

Pros & cons summary


Integrated graphics card 1.17 2.85
Recency 4 November 2019 4 January 2022
Physical cores 4 2
Chip lithography 14 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 6 Watt 46 Watt

Pentium Silver N5030 has 100% more physical cores, and 666.7% lower power consumption.

Pentium Gold G7400E, on the other hand, has 143.6% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 2 years, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Pentium Silver N5030 and Pentium Gold G7400E. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Pentium Silver N5030 is a notebook processor while Pentium Gold G7400E is a desktop one.


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