AMD A10-7850K vs Intel Pentium Silver J5040

A10-7850K vs Pentium Silver J5040 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Silver J5040 performs better than the A10-7850K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-7850K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Pentium Silver J5040 has significantly more cores than the A10-7850K. Indeed, the Pentium Silver J5040 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A10-7850K. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A10-7850K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium Silver J5040. The Pentium Silver J5040 outputs less heat than A10-7850K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the A10-7850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.