Intel Pentium Silver N5030 vs Intel Core i3-1215U

Compare Intel Pentium Silver Series 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i3 6 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

1107 points

3288 points

197% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2151 points

5718 points

165% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

823 points

2595 points

215% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

784 points

2480 points

216% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

11.38 points

57.10 points

401% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points

5802 points

536% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

778 points

4826 points

520% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

352 points

1815 points

415% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.1 GHz

1.2 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

6 W

150% significantly lower TDP

15 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

233% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

8 GiB

64 GiB

700% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

922nd of 1,089

501st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Silver Series

12th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Pentium Silver N5030 vs Core i3-1215U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-1215U is faster than the Pentium Silver N5030. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N5030 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-1215U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Pentium Silver N5030 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Silver N5030. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-1215U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Pentium Silver N5030. A Pentium Silver N5030 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-1215U CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.