Intel Core i3-5010U vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030

Core i3-5010U vs Pentium Silver N5030 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Silver N5030 is faster than the Core i3-5010U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-5010U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Pentium Silver N5030 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-5010U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-5010U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5030. The Pentium Silver N5030 outputs less heat than Core i3-5010U 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 i3-5010U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.