Intel Core i7-6560U vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030

Core i7-6560U vs Pentium Silver N5030 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Silver N5030 performs better than the Core i7-6560U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6560U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium Silver N5030 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-6560U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-6560U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5030. The Pentium Silver N5030 outputs less heat than Core i7-6560U 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 i7-6560U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.