Intel Core i3-3240 vs Intel Pentium Silver N5000

Core i3-3240 vs Pentium Silver N5000 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-3240 performs better than the Pentium Silver N5000. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N5000 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Pentium Silver N5000 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-3240. Indeed, the Pentium Silver N5000 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-3240. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-3240 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5000. The Pentium Silver N5000 outputs less heat than Core i3-3240 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 i3-3240 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.