Pentium Silver N5030 vs Pentium Gold 8500

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Primary details

Comparing Pentium Gold 8500 and Pentium Silver N5030 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated2074
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Seriesno dataIntel Gemini Lake
Power efficiencyno data25.71
Architecture codenameno dataGemini Lake Refresh (2019)
Release date1 January 2022 (2 years ago)4 November 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium Gold 8500 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 coresno data4 (Quad-Core)
Threads64
Base clock speedno data1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed4.4 GHz3.1 GHz
L2 cacheno data4 MB
L3 cache8 MB Intel® Smart Cache4 MB
Chip lithographyIntel 7 nm14 nm
Maximum core temperature100 °C105 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Gold 8500 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 configuration11
SocketFCBGA1781FCBGA1090
Power consumption (TDP)29 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Gold 8500 and Pentium Silver N5030. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI++
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Speed Shift+-
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technology+-
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring++
Flex Memory Access-no data
Smart Responseno data-
GPIOno data+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-
Deep Learning Boost+-

Security technologies

Pentium Gold 8500 and Pentium Silver N5030 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

EDB++
Secure Key++
MPX-+
Identity Protection-+
SGXno dataYes with Intel® ME
OS Guard++
Anti-Theftno data-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Gold 8500 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 8500 and Pentium Silver N5030. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesLPDDR5-5200, LPDDR4x-4267DDR4
Maximum memory size64 GB8 GB
Max memory channels22

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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Intel UHD Graphics for 12th Gen Intel ProcessorsIntel UHD Graphics 605
Max video memoryno data8 GB
Quick Sync Video++
Graphics max frequency800 MHz750 MHz
Execution Units4818

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Gold 8500 and Pentium Silver N5030 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported43
eDPno data+
DisplayPort-+
HDMI-+
MIPI-DSIno data+

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium Gold 8500 and Pentium Silver N5030 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution supportno data+
Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096 x 2304 @ 60Hz4096x2160@30Hz
Max resolution over eDP4096 x 2304 @ 120Hz4096x2160@60Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPort7680 x 4320 @ 60Hz4096x2160@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium Gold 8500 and Pentium Silver N5030 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12.112
OpenGL4.64.4

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Gold 8500 and Pentium Silver N5030.

PCIe versionno data2.0
PCI Express lanes146
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+

Pros & cons summary


Integrated graphics card 5.58 1.17
Recency 1 January 2022 4 November 2019
Threads 6 4
Power consumption (TDP) 29 Watt 6 Watt

Pentium Gold 8500 has 376.9% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 2 years, and 50% more threads.

Pentium Silver N5030, on the other hand, has 383.3% lower power consumption.

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