Intel Pentium 2020M vs Intel Pentium Silver N5000

Compare Intel Pentium 2000 Series 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

766 points

905 points

18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1683 points

1718 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

544 points

682 points

25% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

523 points

652 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.63 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

9.48 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

711 points

870 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

409 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

354 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

667 points

860 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

391 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

345 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

118% significantly higher clock speed

1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

6 W

483% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

166% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

1,013th of 1,089

982nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium 2000 Series

Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4-2400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Pentium 2020M vs Pentium Silver N5000 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Silver N5000 is faster than the Pentium 2020M. Despite this, the Pentium 2020M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Pentium Silver N5000 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium 2020M that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium 2020M. Our comparison shows that the Pentium 2020M has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5000. The Pentium Silver N5000 outputs less heat than Pentium 2020M 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. For instance, the Pentium 2020M has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.