Intel Core i3-2100 vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030

Core i3-2100 vs Pentium Silver N5030 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-2100 is faster than the Pentium Silver N5030. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N5030 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Pentium Silver N5030 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-2100. Indeed, the Pentium Silver N5030 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-2100. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-2100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5030. The Pentium Silver N5030 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-2100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.