Intel Core i3-4170 vs Intel Pentium Silver J5040

Core i3-4170 vs Pentium Silver J5040 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Silver J5040 performs better than the Core i3-4170. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4170 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Pentium Silver J5040 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-4170. Indeed, the Pentium Silver J5040 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-4170. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-4170 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver J5040. The Pentium Silver J5040 outputs less heat than Core i3-4170 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 i3-4170 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.