Intel Core i7-3520M vs Intel Pentium Silver J5040

Core i7-3520M vs Pentium Silver J5040 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Silver J5040 performs better than the Core i7-3520M. Despite this, the Core i7-3520M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Pentium Silver J5040 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-3520M that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3520M has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver J5040. The Pentium Silver J5040 outputs less heat than Core i7-3520M 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 i7-3520M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.