Intel Core i5-4300M vs Intel Pentium Silver J5040

Core i5-4300M vs Pentium Silver J5040 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Silver J5040 performs better than the Core i5-4300M. Despite this, the Core i5-4300M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Pentium Silver J5040 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-4300M. Indeed, the Pentium Silver J5040 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-4300M. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-4300M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver J5040. The Pentium Silver J5040 outputs less heat than Core i5-4300M 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 i5-4300M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.