Intel Core i7-7500U vs Intel Pentium Silver N5000

Core i7-7500U vs Pentium Silver N5000 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-7500U is faster than the Pentium Silver N5000. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N5000 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Pentium Silver N5000 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-7500U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-7500U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5000. The Pentium Silver N5000 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.

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 i7-7500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.