Intel Core i5-11400F vs Intel Pentium Silver J5040

Core i5-11400F vs Pentium Silver J5040 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-11400F performs better than the Pentium Silver J5040. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver J5040 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-11400F has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Pentium Silver J5040 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Silver J5040. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11400F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Pentium Silver J5040. The Pentium Silver J5040 outputs less heat than Core i5-11400F thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-11400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.