Intel Core i5-4210M vs Intel Pentium Silver J5040

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i5 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium Silver Series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1250 points
1289 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2527 points
3% slightly better gaming score
2434 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

920 points
978 points
6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

882 points
939 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

21.96 points
9% slightly higher Blender score
20.05 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1765 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1114 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

907 points
117% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
417 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
30% slightly higher clock speed
2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

37 W
10 W
269% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
166% significantly more pcie lanes
6

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory
8 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

883rd of 1,089
872nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5
Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May
2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR4-2400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i5-4210M vs Pentium Silver J5040 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-4210M 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium Silver J5040 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-4210M has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-4210M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver J5040. The Pentium Silver J5040 outputs less heat than Core i5-4210M 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 i5-4210M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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