Intel Core i7-3517U vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030

Core i7-3517U vs Pentium Silver N5030 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3517U beats the Pentium Silver N5030 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N5030 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 i7-3517U. Indeed, the Pentium Silver N5030 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-3517U. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3517U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5030. The Pentium Silver N5030 outputs less heat than Core i7-3517U 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 i7-3517U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.