AMD Ryzen 3 5300U vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030

Ryzen 3 5300U vs Pentium Silver N5030 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 5300U 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 3 5300U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 5300U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium Silver N5030. The Pentium Silver N5030 outputs less heat than Ryzen 3 5300U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 5300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.