Intel Core i3-3130M vs Intel Pentium Silver N5000

Core i3-3130M vs Pentium Silver N5000 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-3130M is faster than the Pentium Silver N5000. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N5000 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Pentium Silver N5000 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-3130M that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-3130M has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5000. The Pentium Silver N5000 outputs less heat than Core i3-3130M 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 i3-3130M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.