Pentium Silver vs Pentium Silver N5030

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium Silver N5030
2019
4 cores / 4 threads, 6 Watt
1.63

Pentium Silver outperforms Pentium Silver N5030 by a moderate 17% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking20741958
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Gemini Lakeno data
Power efficiency25.71no data
Architecture codenameGemini Lake Refresh (2019)no data
Release date4 November 2019 (5 years ago)1 July 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium Silver N5030 and Pentium Silver 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)no data
Threads4no data
Base clock speed1.1 GHzno data
Boost clock speed3.1 GHzno data
L2 cache4 MBno data
L3 cache4 MBno data
Chip lithography14 nmno data
Maximum core temperature105 °Cno data
64 bit support+-
Windows 11 compatibility+-

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver N5030 and Pentium Silver 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
SocketFCBGA1090no data
Power consumption (TDP)6 Wattno data

Technologies and extensions

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

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2no data
AES-NI+-
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 N5030 and Pentium Silver 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 N5030 and Pentium Silver are enumerated here.

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 N5030 and Pentium Silver. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4no data
Maximum memory size8 GBno data
Max memory channels2no data

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 N5030 and Pentium Silver 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 Silver 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 Silver 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 Silver.

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 N5030 1.63
Pentium Silver 1.91
+17.2%

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 N5030 2595
Pentium Silver 3034
+16.9%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.63 1.91
Recency 4 November 2019 1 July 2020

Pentium Silver has a 17.2% higher aggregate performance score, and an age advantage of 7 months.

The Pentium Silver is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium Silver N5030 in performance tests.


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