Intel Pentium Silver J5040 vs Intel Xeon E5-1603

Compare Intel Pentium Silver Series 4 core CPU vs Intel 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

1289 points

1564 points

21% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2434 points

2883 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

978 points

1194 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

939 points

1145 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.05 points

22.30 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1114 points

1475 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

417 points

468 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

10 W

1200% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

872nd of 1,089

793rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Pentium Silver J5040 vs Xeon E5-1603 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Silver J5040 is faster than the Xeon E5-1603. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1603 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. A Pentium Silver J5040 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1603 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Pentium Silver J5040 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.