Celeron N4100 vs Pentium Silver N5000

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Aggregated performance score

Pentium Silver N5000
2017
4 cores / 4 threads
1.58
Celeron N4100
2017
4 cores / 4 threads
1.58

Primary Details

Comparing Pentium Silver N5000 and Celeron N4100 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking19861988
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Pentium SilverIntel Celeron
Architecture codenameGemini Lake (2019)Gemini Lake (2019)
Release date11 December 2017 (6 years ago)11 December 2017 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$161$107
Current price$358 (2.2x MSRP)$269 (2.5x MSRP)

Detailed Specifications

Pentium Silver N5000 and Celeron N4100 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads44
Base clock speed1.1 GHz1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed2.7 GHz2.4 GHz
L1 cache224 KB256 KB
L2 cache4 MB4 MB
L3 cache4 MB4 MB
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Maximum core temperature105 °C105 deg C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver N5000 and Celeron N4100 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
SocketFCBGA1090FCBGA1090
Power consumption (TDP)6 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and Celeron N4100. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2Intel® 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--
StatusDiscontinuedDiscontinued

Security technologies

Pentium Silver N5000 and Celeron N4100 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

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

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and Celeron N4100 are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and Celeron N4100. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4, DDR4DDR4, DDR4
Maximum memory size8 GB8 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/s38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support--

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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Intel UHD Graphics 605Intel UHD Graphics 600
Max video memory8 GB8 GB
Quick Sync Video++
Graphics max frequency750 MHz700 MHz
Execution Units1812

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Silver N5000 and Celeron N4100 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported33
eDP++
DisplayPort++
HDMI++
MIPI-DSI++

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and Celeron N4100 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support++

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and Celeron N4100 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX1212
OpenGL4.44.4

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and Celeron N4100.

PCIe version2.02.0
PCI Express lanes66
USB revision2.0/3.02.0/3.0
Total number of SATA ports22
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports22
Number of USB ports88
Integrated LAN--
UART++

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 Silver N5000 1.58
Celeron N4100 1.58

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 N5000 2442
+0%
Celeron N4100 2441

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 N5000 349
+11.1%
Celeron N4100 314

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms Celeron N4100 by 11% in GeekBench 5 Single-Core.

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 N5000 869
+3.9%
Celeron N4100 836

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms Celeron N4100 by 4% in GeekBench 5 Multi-Core.

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 N5000 2295
+14%
Celeron N4100 2013

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms Celeron N4100 by 14% in Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core.

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 N5000 6688
+13.3%
Celeron N4100 5904

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms Celeron N4100 by 13% in Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core.

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 N5000 3320
+18.4%
Celeron N4100 2805

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms Celeron N4100 by 18% in 3DMark06 CPU.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 18%

Pentium Silver N5000 16.83
+15.3%
Celeron N4100 19.41

Celeron N4100 outperforms Pentium Silver N5000 by 15% in wPrime 32.

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 N5000 3
+28.4%
Celeron N4100 2

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms Celeron N4100 by 28% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core.

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 N5000 237
+19.4%
Celeron N4100 198

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms Celeron N4100 by 19% in Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core.

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 N5000 78
+13.7%
Celeron N4100 69

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms Celeron N4100 by 14% in Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core.

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 N5000 0.94
+13.3%
Celeron N4100 0.83

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms Celeron N4100 by 13% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core.

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 N5000 1.9
+11.8%
Celeron N4100 1.7

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms Celeron N4100 by 12% in TrueCrypt AES.

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 N5000 1245
+9.3%
Celeron N4100 1139

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms Celeron N4100 by 9% in WinRAR 4.0.

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 N5000 76
+31.1%
Celeron N4100 58

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms Celeron N4100 by 31% in x264 encoding pass 1.

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 N5000 15
+30.5%
Celeron N4100 12

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms Celeron N4100 by 31% in x264 encoding pass 2.

Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core

Benchmark coverage: 5%

Pentium Silver N5000 1778
+9.1%
Celeron N4100 1629

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms Celeron N4100 by 9% in Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core.

Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core

Benchmark coverage: 5%

Pentium Silver N5000 5548
+10%
Celeron N4100 5042

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms Celeron N4100 by 10% in Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core.

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit multi-core

Benchmark coverage: 2%

Pentium Silver N5000 5488
+7.1%
Celeron N4100 5123

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms Celeron N4100 by 7% in Geekbench 4.0 64-bit multi-core.

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit single-core

Benchmark coverage: 2%

Pentium Silver N5000 2045
+12.1%
Celeron N4100 1825

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms Celeron N4100 by 12% in Geekbench 4.0 64-bit single-core.

Gaming performance

Pros & Cons Summary


Integrated graphics card 1.17 0.86
Cost $161 $107

Given the minimal performance differences, no clear winner can be declared between Pentium Silver N5000 and Celeron N4100.


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