Intel Core i7-7500U vs Intel Pentium Silver J5040

Core i7-7500U vs Pentium Silver J5040 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-7500U performs better than the Pentium Silver J5040. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver J5040 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Pentium Silver J5040 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-7500U. Indeed, the Pentium Silver J5040 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-7500U. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7500U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Pentium Silver J5040. The Pentium Silver J5040 outputs less heat than Core i7-7500U 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 i7-7500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.