Intel Core i3-3217U vs Intel Pentium Silver N5000

Core i3-3217U vs Pentium Silver N5000 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Silver N5000 beats the Core i3-3217U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-3217U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium Silver N5000 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-3217U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-3217U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium Silver N5000. The Pentium Silver N5000 outputs less heat than Core i3-3217U 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 i3-3217U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.