Intel Core i3-12100F vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030

Core i3-12100F vs Pentium Silver N5030 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-12100F performs better than the Pentium Silver N5030. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N5030 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-12100F has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-12100F has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium Silver N5030. The Pentium Silver N5030 outputs less heat than Core i3-12100F 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 Core i3-12100F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.