Intel Core i3-7100 vs Intel Pentium Silver J5040

Core i3-7100 vs Pentium Silver J5040 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-7100 beats the Pentium Silver J5040 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver J5040 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 i3-7100. Indeed, the Pentium Silver J5040 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-7100. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-7100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver J5040. The Pentium Silver J5040 outputs less heat than Core i3-7100 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 i3-7100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.