AMD FX-4100 vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030

FX-4100 vs Pentium Silver N5030 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-4100 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Pentium Silver N5030 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-4100 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-4100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5030. The Pentium Silver N5030 outputs less heat than FX-4100 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 FX-4100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.