Intel Pentium Silver N5000 vs AMD Athlon II X3 425

Compare Intel Pentium Silver Series 4 core CPU vs AMD 3 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

905 points
914 points
0.99% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1718 points
1829 points
6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

682 points
0.44% slightly better multitasking score
679 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

652 points
653 points
0.15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

860 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
634 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

345 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
278 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
33% slightly more cores
3

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
33% slightly more threads
3

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.1 GHz
2.7 GHz
145% significantly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

982nd of 1,089
978th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Silver Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Pentium Silver N5000 vs Athlon II X3 425 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Silver N5000 is faster than the Athlon II X3 425. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X3 425 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Pentium Silver N5000 has slightly more cores than the Athlon II X3 425. Indeed, the Pentium Silver N5000 has 4 cores compared to 3 cores found in the Athlon II X3 425. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X3 425. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon II X3 425 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5000.

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

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