Intel Core i3-2100 vs Intel Pentium Silver J5040

Core i3-2100 vs Pentium Silver J5040 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Silver J5040 performs better than the Core i3-2100. Despite this, the Core i3-2100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium Silver J5040 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-2100 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-2100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver J5040. The Pentium Silver J5040 outputs less heat than Core i3-2100 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-2100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.