Intel Core i3-6100U vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030

Core i3-6100U vs Pentium Silver N5030 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-6100U beats the Pentium Silver N5030 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N5030 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium Silver N5030 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-6100U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-6100U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5030. The Pentium Silver N5030 outputs less heat than Core i3-6100U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-6100U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.