Intel Core i7-5600U vs Intel Pentium Silver J5040

Compare Intel 5th Generation Core i7 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium Silver Series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1056 points
1289 points
22% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2095 points
2434 points
16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

783 points
978 points
24% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

750 points
939 points
25% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.29 points
31% slightly higher Blender score
20.05 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1765 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1114 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

926 points
122% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
417 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
30% slightly higher clock speed
2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
10 W
49% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

12
100% significantly more pcie lanes
6

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

16 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
8 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

933rd of 1,089
872nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

5th Generation Core i7
Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February
2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Core i7-5600U vs Pentium Silver J5040 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-5600U 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.

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 i7-5600U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-5600U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver J5040. The Pentium Silver J5040 outputs less heat than Core i7-5600U 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 i7-5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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