Intel Core i3-3120M vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030

Core i3-3120M vs Pentium Silver N5030 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Silver N5030 performs better than the Core i3-3120M. Despite this, the Core i3-3120M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium Silver N5030 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-3120M has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-3120M has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium Silver N5030. The Pentium Silver N5030 outputs less heat than Core i3-3120M 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 i3-3120M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.