Intel Core i7-870 vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030

Core i7-870 vs Pentium Silver N5030 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-870 performs better than the Pentium Silver N5030. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N5030 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count 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 N5030. The Pentium Silver N5030 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.

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 i7-870 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.