Intel Core i5-3320M vs Intel Pentium Silver J5040

Core i5-3320M vs Pentium Silver J5040 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Silver J5040 beats the Core i5-3320M in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-3320M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium Silver J5040 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-3320M has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-3320M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver J5040. The Pentium Silver J5040 outputs less heat than Core i5-3320M thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-3320M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.