Intel Core i7-5500U vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030

Core i7-5500U vs Pentium Silver N5030 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-5500U is faster than the Pentium Silver N5030. 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 i7-5500U. Indeed, the Pentium Silver N5030 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-5500U. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-5500U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5030. The Pentium Silver N5030 outputs less heat than Core i7-5500U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.