Intel Pentium 5405U vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030

Pentium 5405U vs Pentium Silver N5030 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium 5405U performs better than the Pentium Silver N5030. Despite this, the Pentium Silver N5030 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Pentium Silver N5030 has significantly more cores than the Pentium 5405U. Indeed, the Pentium Silver N5030 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium 5405U. But they both have the same number of threads. The Pentium Silver N5030 outputs less heat than Pentium 5405U 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 Pentium 5405U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.