Intel Pentium Silver N5030 vs AMD Athlon II X3 425

Pentium Silver N5030 vs Athlon II X3 425 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Silver N5030 beats the Athlon II X3 425 in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon II X3 425 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Pentium Silver N5030 has slightly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Athlon II X3 425 that has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X3 425. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X3 425 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5030.

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 N5030 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.