Intel Pentium Silver N5000 vs AMD A9-9420

Pentium Silver N5000 vs A9-9420 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Silver N5000 beats the A9-9420 in overall performance. Despite this, the A9-9420 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Pentium Silver N5000 has significantly more cores than the A9-9420. Indeed, the Pentium Silver N5000 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A9-9420. It also has more threads than the A9-9420. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A9-9420 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5000.

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. For instance, the Pentium Silver N5000 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.