Pentium Silver J5040: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregated performance score

Pentium Silver J5040
2019
4 cores / 4 threads
2.17

It provides poor benchmark performance at 2.17% of a leader's which is Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.

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Summary

Intel started Pentium Silver J5040 sales 4 November 2019. This is a Gemini Lake Refresh architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3200 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCBGA1090 processor with a TDP of 10 Watt. It supports DDR4, DDR4 memory.

General info

Pentium Silver J5040 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in performance ranking1736
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Value for money1.51
Market segmentDesktop processor
Architecture codenameGemini Lake Refresh (2019)
Release date4 November 2019 (4 years ago)
Current price$649 of 17802 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX)

Value for money

Performance per price, higher is better.

Technical specs

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores4 (Quad-Core)
Threads4
Base clock speed2 GHzof 4.7 (Ryzen 9 7900X)
Boost clock speed3.2 GHzof 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS)
L2 cache4 MBof 96 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX)
L3 cache4 MBof 768 (EPYC 7773X)
Chip lithography14 nmof 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Maximum core temperature105 °Cof 110 (Core Ultra 7 165H)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+
Unlocked multiplierNo

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver J5040 compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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 configuration1of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8160M)
SocketFCBGA1090
Power consumption (TDP)10 Wattof 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver J5040. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2
AES-NI+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Speed Shift-
Turbo Boost Technology-
Hyper-Threading Technology-
Idle States+
Thermal Monitoring+
Smart Response-
GPIO+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0-
StatusDiscontinued

Security technologies

Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

EDB+
Secure Key+
MPX+
Identity Protection+
SGXYes with Intel® ME
OS Guard+
Anti-Theft-

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

VT-d+
VT-x+
EPT+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Pentium Silver J5040's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4, DDR4
Maximum memory size8 GBof 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3)
Max memory channels2of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
ECC memory support-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Pentium Silver J5040.

Integrated graphics cardIntel UHD Graphics 605
Max video memory8 GB
Quick Sync Video+
Graphics max frequency800 MHz
Execution Units18

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Silver J5040's integrated GPU.

Number of displays supported3
eDP+
DisplayPort+
HDMI+
MIPI-DSI+

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium Silver J5040's integrated GPU, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support+
Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096x2160@30Hz
Max resolution over eDP4096x2160@60Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPort4096x2160@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium Silver J5040's integrated GPU, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12
OpenGL4.4

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version2.0of 5 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX)
PCI Express lanes6of 128 (EPYC 9654)
USB revision2.0/3.0
Total number of SATA ports2
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports2
Number of USB ports8
Integrated LAN-
UART+

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Pentium Silver J5040. Overall benchmark performance 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 Silver J5040 2.17

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.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

Pentium Silver J5040 3351

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.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Pentium Silver J5040 416

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.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Pentium Silver J5040 1133

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.

Benchmark coverage: 20%

Pentium Silver J5040 2688

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.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Pentium Silver J5040 8279

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.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Pentium Silver J5040 4296

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.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

Pentium Silver J5040 3

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

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

Benchmark coverage: 15%

Pentium Silver J5040 279

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.

Benchmark coverage: 15%

Pentium Silver J5040 91

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.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

Pentium Silver J5040 1.09

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.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Pentium Silver J5040 2

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.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Pentium Silver J5040 1391

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.  

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Pentium Silver J5040 89

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.  

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Pentium Silver J5040 19

Gaming performance

Relative performance

Overall Pentium Silver J5040 performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop CPUs.


Core i5 100
Pentium Silver J5040 100
Core i7-960 99.54
FX-4150 99.08
Core i7-880 99.08

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Pentium Silver J5040 is PRO A8-9600, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.

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Here are some closest AMD rivals to Pentium Silver J5040:

Athlon X4 850 100.46
A10 PRO-7800B 100.46
Pentium Silver J5040 100
FX-4150 99.08
A8-9600 98.62

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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Pentium Silver J5040, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Pentium Silver J5040 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 1187 configurations based on Pentium Silver J5040 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
1.2% (14/1187)
RTX 4070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
0.08% (1/1187)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.08% (1/1187)
RX 6950 XT Radeon RX 6950 XT
0.08% (1/1187)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.4% (5/1187)
RTX 4070 GeForce RTX 4070
0.08% (1/1187)
RTX 3090 GeForce RTX 3090
0.4% (5/1187)
RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
0.08% (1/1187)
RX 6700 XT Radeon RX 6700 XT
0.08% (1/1187)

User Ratings

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