Intel Core i5-7300U vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030

Core i5-7300U vs Pentium Silver N5030 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Silver N5030 is faster than the Core i5-7300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7300U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Pentium Silver N5030 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-7300U. Indeed, the Pentium Silver N5030 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-7300U. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-7300U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5030. The Pentium Silver N5030 outputs less heat than Core i5-7300U 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 i5-7300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.