Intel Core i3-3240T vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium Silver Series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1082 points
1107 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2083 points
2151 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

816 points
823 points
0.86% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

784 points
Identical
784 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

981 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
778 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
352 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
163% significantly higher clock speed
1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
6 W
483% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory
8 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

928th of 1,089
922nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August
2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR4-2400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i3-3240T vs Pentium Silver N5030 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-3240T performs better than the Pentium Silver N5030. Despite this, the Pentium Silver N5030 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Pentium Silver N5030 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-3240T. Indeed, the Pentium Silver N5030 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-3240T. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-3240T has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5030. The Pentium Silver N5030 outputs less heat than Core i3-3240T 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 i3-3240T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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