Intel Core i5-3317U vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030

Core i5-3317U vs Pentium Silver N5030 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3317U is faster than the Pentium Silver N5030. 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 i5-3317U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3317U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5030. The Pentium Silver N5030 outputs less heat than Core i5-3317U 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 i5-3317U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.