Intel Pentium Silver N5030 vs Intel Core i7 Q 720

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

924 points

1% slightly better overall score

907 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1755 points

19% slightly better gaming score

1463 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

697 points

740 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

667 points

709 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

11.38 points

13.97 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.1 GHz

1.6 GHz

45% significantly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

996th of 1,114

1,004th of 1,114

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 N5030 vs Core i7 Q 720 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Silver N5030 performs better than the Core i7 Q 720. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 Q 720 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7 Q 720 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7 Q 720 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.