Intel Core i5-3230M vs Intel Pentium Silver N5000

Core i5-3230M vs Pentium Silver N5000 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3230M 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 i5-3230M. Indeed, the Pentium Silver N5000 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-3230M. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3230M has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium Silver N5000. The Pentium Silver N5000 outputs less heat than Core i5-3230M 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 i5-3230M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.