Intel Core i7-7500U vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030

Compare Intel 7th 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

1350 points
21% slightly better overall score
1107 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2679 points
24% slightly better gaming score
2151 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1002 points
21% slightly better multitasking score
823 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

962 points
22% slightly better heavy workload score
784 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.43 points
105% significantly higher Blender score
11.38 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

2.7 GHz
145% significantly higher clock speed
1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
6 W
150% 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

32 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory
8 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

857th of 1,089
922nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i7
Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR4-2400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i7-7500U vs Pentium Silver N5030 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-7500U beats the Pentium Silver N5030 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N5030 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 i7-7500U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7500U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5030. The Pentium Silver N5030 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-7500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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