Intel Core i7-870 vs Intel Pentium Silver N5000

Core i7-870 vs Pentium Silver N5000 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-870 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 these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-870 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-870 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5000. The Pentium Silver N5000 outputs less heat than Core i7-870 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 i7-870 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.