Pentium Silver A1030 vs Xeon Gold 5420+

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Primary details

Comparing Xeon Gold 5420+ and Pentium Silver A1030 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking93not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation58.72no data
Market segmentServerLaptop
Power efficiency16.92no data
Architecture codenameSapphire Rapids (2023−2024)no data
Release date10 January 2023 (1 year ago)1 July 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,848no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Xeon Gold 5420+ and Pentium Silver A1030 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 cores28 (Octacosa-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads562
Base clock speed2 GHz2 GHz
Boost clock speed4.1 GHz2.7 GHz
L1 cache80K (per core)no data
L2 cache2 MB (per core)no data
L3 cache52.5 MB4 MB
Chip lithography10 nm14 nm
Maximum core temperatureno data105 deg C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)84 °Cno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility+no data

Compatibility

Information on Xeon Gold 5420+ and Pentium Silver A1030 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 configuration21
Socket4677FCBGA1090
Power consumption (TDP)205 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon Gold 5420+ and Pentium Silver A1030. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE4.2
AES-NI++
AVX+-
vPro+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shiftno data-
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data-
TSX+-
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Smart Responseno data-
GPIOno data+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-

Security technologies

Xeon Gold 5420+ and Pentium Silver A1030 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+no data
EDBno data+
Secure Keyno data+
MPX-+
Identity Protection-+
SGXno dataYes with Intel® ME
OS Guardno data+
Anti-Theftno data-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon Gold 5420+ and Pentium Silver A1030 are enumerated here.

VT-d++
VT-x++
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon Gold 5420+ and Pentium Silver A1030. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR5-4400upto-2400
Maximum memory sizeno data8 GB
Max memory channelsno data2

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Max video memoryno data8 GB
Quick Sync Video-+
Graphics max frequencyno data700 GHz
Execution Unitsno data12

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Xeon Gold 5420+ and Pentium Silver A1030 integrated GPUs.

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

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Xeon Gold 5420+ and Pentium Silver A1030 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution supportno data+

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Xeon Gold 5420+ and Pentium Silver A1030 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXno data12
OpenGLno data4.4

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon Gold 5420+ and Pentium Silver A1030.

PCIe version5.02.0
PCI Express lanes806
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


Recency 10 January 2023 1 July 2020
Physical cores 28 2
Threads 56 2
Chip lithography 10 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 205 Watt 15 Watt

Xeon Gold 5420+ has an age advantage of 2 years, 1300% more physical cores and 2700% more threads, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

Pentium Silver A1030, on the other hand, has 1266.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Xeon Gold 5420+ and Pentium Silver A1030. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Xeon Gold 5420+ is a server/workstation processor while Pentium Silver A1030 is a notebook one.


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