Intel Core i5-8250U vs Intel Pentium Silver J5040

Core i5-8250U vs Pentium Silver J5040 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8250U is faster than the Pentium Silver J5040. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver J5040 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-8250U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Silver J5040 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8250U. The Pentium Silver J5040 outputs less heat than Core i5-8250U 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 i5-8250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.