Pentium Silver N5030 vs Pentium Gold 5405U

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium Gold 5405U
2019
2 cores / 4 threads, 15 Watt
1.48
Pentium Silver N5030
2019
4 cores / 4 threads, 6 Watt
1.63
+10.1%

Pentium Silver N5030 outperforms Pentium Gold 5405U by a moderate 10% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Pentium Gold 5405U and Pentium Silver N5030 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking21662088
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Pentium, Pentium GoldIntel Gemini Lake
Power efficiency9.3425.71
Architecture codenameWhiskey Lake-U (2018−2019)Gemini Lake Refresh (2019)
Release date23 January 2019 (5 years ago)4 November 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$161no data

Detailed specifications

Pentium Gold 5405U and Pentium Silver N5030 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)
Threads44
Base clock speed2.3 GHz1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed2.3 GHz3.1 GHz
Bus typeOPIno data
Bus rate4 GT/sno data
Multiplier23no data
L1 cache64 KB (per core)no data
L2 cache256 KB (per core)4 MB
L3 cache2 MB (shared)4 MB
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Maximum core temperature100 °C105 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Gold 5405U and Pentium Silver N5030 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 configuration1 (Uniprocessor)1
SocketFCBGA1528FCBGA1090
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Gold 5405U and Pentium Silver N5030. 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 Shift+-
My WiFi+no data
Turbo Boost Technology--
Hyper-Threading Technology+-
Idle States++
Thermal Monitoring++
Flex Memory Access+no data
Smart Response+-
GPIOno data+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-

Security technologies

Pentium Gold 5405U and Pentium Silver N5030 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-no data
EDB++
Secure Key++
MPX-+
Identity Protection++
SGXYes with Intel® MEYes with Intel® ME
OS Guard++
Anti-Theftno data-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Gold 5405U and Pentium Silver N5030 are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Gold 5405U and Pentium Silver N5030. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3, DDR4DDR4
Maximum memory size64 GB8 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/sno data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
Compare
Intel UHD Graphics for 8th Generation Intel ProcessorsIntel UHD Graphics 605
Max video memory32 GB8 GB
Quick Sync Video++
Clear Video+no data
Clear Video HD+no data
Graphics max frequency950 MHz750 MHz
Execution Unitsno data18

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Gold 5405U and Pentium Silver N5030 integrated GPUs.

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

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium Gold 5405U and Pentium Silver N5030 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support++
Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096x2304@24Hz4096x2160@30Hz
Max resolution over eDP4096x2304@60Hz4096x2160@60Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPort4096x2304@60Hz4096x2160@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium Gold 5405U and Pentium Silver N5030 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX1212
OpenGL4.54.4

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Gold 5405U and Pentium Silver N5030.

PCIe version2.02.0
PCI Express lanes126
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 Gold 5405U 1.48
Pentium Silver N5030 1.63
+10.1%

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 Gold 5405U 2357
Pentium Silver N5030 2594
+10.1%

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 Gold 5405U 3561
+42.5%
Pentium Silver N5030 2498

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 Gold 5405U 7886
+2.1%
Pentium Silver N5030 7724

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 Gold 5405U 3224
Pentium Silver N5030 3895
+20.8%

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 Gold 5405U 22.53
Pentium Silver N5030 14.65
+53.8%

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 Gold 5405U 3
Pentium Silver N5030 3
+17.9%

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Pentium Gold 5405U 233
+3.1%
Pentium Silver N5030 226

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made 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 (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Pentium Gold 5405U 93
+14.4%
Pentium Silver N5030 81

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 Gold 5405U 1.06
+3.9%
Pentium Silver N5030 1.02

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 Gold 5405U 1904
+63.7%
Pentium Silver N5030 1163

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 Gold 5405U 16
Pentium Silver N5030 18
+12.7%

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 Gold 5405U 82
Pentium Silver N5030 84
+2.3%

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Pentium Gold 5405U 1324
+8.4%
Pentium Silver N5030 1221

Blender(-)

Pentium Gold 5405U 2180
Pentium Silver N5030 3450
+58.3%

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Pentium Gold 5405U 585
+14.3%
Pentium Silver N5030 512

7-Zip Single

Pentium Gold 5405U 2528
Pentium Silver N5030 2645
+4.6%

7-Zip

Pentium Gold 5405U 6502
Pentium Silver N5030 7238
+11.3%

WebXPRT 3

Pentium Gold 5405U 103
+7.5%
Pentium Silver N5030 95

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.48 1.63
Integrated graphics card 5.58 1.18
Recency 23 January 2019 4 November 2019
Physical cores 2 4
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 6 Watt

Pentium Gold 5405U has 372.9% faster integrated GPU.

Pentium Silver N5030, on the other hand, has a 10.1% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 9 months, 100% more physical cores, and 150% lower power consumption.

The Pentium Silver N5030 is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium Gold 5405U in performance tests.


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