Pentium Silver N5000 vs Pentium 2020M

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium 2020M
2012
2 cores / 2 threads, 35 Watt
0.87
Pentium Silver N5000
2017
4 cores / 4 threads, 6 Watt
1.54
+77%

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms Pentium 2020M by an impressive 77% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Pentium 2020M and Pentium Silver N5000 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking25682134
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel PentiumIntel Pentium Silver
Power efficiency2.3524.29
Architecture codenameIvy Bridge (2012−2013)Goldmont Plus (2017)
Release date1 September 2012 (12 years ago)11 December 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$134$161

Detailed specifications

Pentium 2020M and Pentium Silver N5000 basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads24
Base clock speed2.4 GHz1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed2.4 GHz2.7 GHz
Bus rate5 GT/sno data
Multiplierno data11
L1 cache64K (per core)56 KB (per core)
L2 cache256K (per core)4 MB (shared)
L3 cache2 MB (shared)4 MB
Chip lithography22 nm14 nm
Die size118 mm293 mm2
Maximum core temperature90 °C105 °C
Number of transistors1,400 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Pentium 2020M and Pentium Silver N5000 compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration11 (Uniprocessor)
SocketFCPGA988FCBGA1090
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium 2020M and Pentium Silver N5000. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shiftno data-
My WiFi+no data
Turbo Boost Technology--
Hyper-Threading Technology--
Idle States++
Thermal Monitoring++
Flex Memory Access+no data
Smart Responseno data-
Demand Based Switching-no data
GPIOno data+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-
FDI+no data
Fast Memory Access+no data

Security technologies

Pentium 2020M and Pentium Silver N5000 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-no data
EDB++
Secure Keyno data+
MPX-+
Identity Protection-+
SGXno dataYes with Intel® ME
OS Guardno data+
Anti-Theft--

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium 2020M and Pentium Silver N5000 are enumerated here.

VT-d-+
VT-x++
EPT++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium 2020M and Pentium Silver N5000. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR4
Maximum memory size32 GB8 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s38.397 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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Intel HD Graphics for 3rd Generation Intel ProcessorsIntel UHD Graphics 605
Max video memoryno data8 GB
Quick Sync Video-+
Graphics max frequency1.1 GHz750 MHz
Execution Unitsno data18

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium 2020M and Pentium Silver N5000 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported33
eDP++
DisplayPort++
HDMI++
MIPI-DSIno data+
SDVO+no data
CRT+no data

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium 2020M and Pentium Silver N5000 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution supportno data+

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium 2020M and Pentium Silver N5000 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXno data12
OpenGLno data4.4

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium 2020M and Pentium Silver N5000.

PCIe version2.02.0
PCI Express lanes166
USB revisionno data2.0/3.0
Total number of SATA portsno data2
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Portsno data2
Number of USB portsno data8
Integrated LANno data-
UARTno data+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Pentium 2020M 0.87
Pentium Silver N5000 1.54
+77%

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Pentium 2020M 1378
Pentium Silver N5000 2442
+77.2%

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Pentium 2020M 394
+13.9%
Pentium Silver N5000 346

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Pentium 2020M 673
Pentium Silver N5000 860
+27.8%

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Pentium 2020M 3299
+43.7%
Pentium Silver N5000 2295

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Pentium 2020M 6312
Pentium Silver N5000 6688
+6%

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Pentium 2020M 2449
Pentium Silver N5000 3320
+35.6%

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Pentium 2020M 31.53
Pentium Silver N5000 16.83
+87.3%

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Pentium 2020M 2
Pentium Silver N5000 3
+45.8%

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

Pentium 2020M 0.98
+4.3%
Pentium Silver N5000 0.94

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Pentium 2020M 0.2
Pentium Silver N5000 1.9
+850%

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Pentium 2020M 1388
+11.5%
Pentium Silver N5000 1245

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Pentium 2020M 11
Pentium Silver N5000 15
+40%

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Pentium 2020M 61
Pentium Silver N5000 76
+24.5%

Geekbench 2

Pentium 2020M 4060
Pentium Silver N5000 4819
+18.7%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.87 1.54
Integrated graphics card 0.77 1.18
Recency 1 September 2012 11 December 2017
Physical cores 2 4
Threads 2 4
Chip lithography 22 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 6 Watt

Pentium Silver N5000 has a 77% higher aggregate performance score, 53.2% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 5 years, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, a 57.1% more advanced lithography process, and 483.3% lower power consumption.

The Pentium Silver N5000 is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium 2020M in performance tests.


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