Intel Pentium G2020 vs Intel Pentium Silver N5000

Compare Intel Pentium G 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

934 points

3% slightly better overall score

905 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2034 points

18% slightly better gaming score

1718 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

666 points

682 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

640 points

652 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9.25 points

9.48 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

802 points

870 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

354 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

817 points

860 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

476 points

37% 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

2.9 GHz

163% significantly higher clock speed

1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

55 W

6 W

816% significantly lower TDP

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

972nd of 1,089

982nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium G Series

Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February

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

Yes

Pentium G2020 vs Pentium Silver N5000 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium G2020 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium Silver N5000 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium G2020 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G2020. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium G2020 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5000. The Pentium Silver N5000 outputs less heat than Pentium G2020 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 G2020 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.