Intel Pentium Silver N5030 vs Intel Xeon W3520

Compare Intel Pentium Silver Series 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 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

1107 points

1318 points

19% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2151 points

2412 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

823 points

1009 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

784 points

969 points

23% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

11.38 points

21.91 points

92% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

778 points

1438 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

352 points

416 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.1 GHz

2.66 GHz

141% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

6 W

2066% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

8 GiB

24 GiB

200% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

922nd of 1,089

865th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Silver Series

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November

2009 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Pentium Silver N5030 vs Xeon W3520 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon W3520 beats the Pentium Silver N5030 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N5030 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon W3520 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5030. A Pentium Silver N5030 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W3520 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.