Pentium Silver N5030 vs Xeon E7-8894 v4

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Primary details

Comparing Xeon E7-8894 v4 and Pentium Silver N5030 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated2070
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentServerLaptop
SeriesIntel Xeon E7Intel Gemini Lake
Power efficiencyno data25.68
Architecture codenameBroadwell (2015−2019)Gemini Lake Refresh (2019)
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)4 November 2019 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$8,898no data

Detailed specifications

Xeon E7-8894 v4 and Pentium Silver N5030 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 cores24 (Tetracosa-Core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads484
Base clock speed2.4 GHz1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed3.4 GHz3.1 GHz
Bus typeQPIno data
Bus rate3 × 9.6 GT/sno data
L2 cache6 MB4 MB
L3 cache60 MB4 MB
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Maximum core temperature79 °C105 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Xeon E7-8894 v4 and Pentium Silver N5030 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 configuration8 (Multiprocessor)1
SocketFCLGA2011FCBGA1090
Power consumption (TDP)165 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon E7-8894 v4 and Pentium Silver N5030. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® AVX2Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI++
AVX+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shiftno data-
Turbo Boost Technology2.0-
Hyper-Threading Technology+-
TSX+-
Idle States++
Thermal Monitoring++
Flex Memory Access-no data
Smart Responseno data-
Demand Based Switching-no data
PAE46 Bitno data
GPIOno data+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-

Security technologies

Xeon E7-8894 v4 and Pentium Silver N5030 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+no data
EDB++
Secure Key++
MPX-+
Identity Protection-+
SGXno dataYes with Intel® ME
OS Guard++
Anti-Theftno data-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon E7-8894 v4 and Pentium Silver N5030 are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon E7-8894 v4 and Pentium Silver N5030. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4-1333, DDR4-1600, DDR4-1866, DDR3-1066, DDR3-1333, DDR3-1600DDR4
Maximum memory size3 TB8 GB
Max memory channels42
Maximum memory bandwidth85 GB/sno data
ECC memory support+-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataIntel UHD Graphics 605
Max video memoryno data8 GB
Quick Sync Video-+
Graphics max frequencyno data750 MHz
Execution Unitsno data18

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Xeon E7-8894 v4 and Pentium Silver N5030 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data3
eDPno data+
DisplayPort-+
HDMI-+
MIPI-DSIno data+

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Xeon E7-8894 v4 and Pentium Silver N5030 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution supportno data+
Max resolution over HDMI 1.4no data4096x2160@30Hz
Max resolution over eDPno data4096x2160@60Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPortno data4096x2160@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Xeon E7-8894 v4 and Pentium Silver N5030 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXno data12
OpenGLno data4.4

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon E7-8894 v4 and Pentium Silver N5030.

PCIe version3.02.0
PCI Express lanes326
USB revisionno data2.0/3.0
Total number of SATA portsno data2
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Portsno data2
Number of USB portsno data8
Integrated LANno data-
UARTno data+

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 24 4
Threads 48 4
Power consumption (TDP) 165 Watt 6 Watt

Xeon E7-8894 v4 has 500% more physical cores and 1100% more threads.

Pentium Silver N5030, on the other hand, has 2650% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Xeon E7-8894 v4 and Pentium Silver N5030. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Xeon E7-8894 v4 is a server/workstation processor while Pentium Silver N5030 is a notebook one.


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