Intel Core i5-2520M vs Intel Pentium Silver N5000

Core i5-2520M vs Pentium Silver N5000 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2520M beats the Pentium Silver N5000 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N5000 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Pentium Silver N5000 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-2520M. Indeed, the Pentium Silver N5000 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-2520M. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-2520M has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5000. The Pentium Silver N5000 outputs less heat than Core i5-2520M 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 i5-2520M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.