Intel Pentium Silver N5030 vs AMD Pro A10-8700B

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Combined performance score

Pro A10-8700B
1.44

Pentium Silver N5030 outperforms Pro A10-8700B by 18% in our combined benchmark results.

General info

Comparing Pro A10-8700B and Pentium Silver N5030 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking20591919
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD CarrizoIntel Gemini Lake
Architecture codenameCarrizo (2015−2018)Gemini Lake Refresh (2019)
Release date3 June 2015 (8 years old)4 November 2019 (4 years old)
Current price$326 no data

Technical specs

Pro A10-8700B 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads44
Base clock speed1.8 GHz1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed3.2 GHz3.1 GHz
L2 cache2048 KB4 MB
L3 cacheno data4 MB
Chip lithography28 nm14 nm
Maximum core temperatureno data105 °C
Number of transistors3100 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on Pro A10-8700B 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 configurationno data1
SocketFP4FCBGA1090
Power consumption (TDP)12 - 35 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pro A10-8700B and Pentium Silver N5030. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsHSA 1.0Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI1+
FMAFMA4no data
AVXAVXno data
FRTC1no data
FreeSync1no data
PowerTune-no data
TrueAudio+no data
PowerNow+no data
PowerGating+no data
Out-of-band client management+no data
VirusProtect+no data
RAID+no data
HSA+no data
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Speed Shiftno data-
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data-
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoringno data+
Smart Responseno data-
GPIOno data+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-
Statusno dataDiscontinued

Security technologies

Pro A10-8700B and Pentium Silver N5030 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

EDBno data+
Secure Keyno data+
MPXno data+
Identity Protectionno data+
SGXno dataYes with Intel® ME
OS Guardno data+
Anti-Theftno data-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pro A10-8700B and Pentium Silver N5030 are enumerated here.

AMD-V1no data
VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+
IOMMU 2.0+no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pro A10-8700B and Pentium Silver N5030. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3/DDR3L-2133DDR4, DDR4
Maximum memory sizeno data8 GB
Max memory channels22
ECC memory supportno data-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon R6 GraphicsIntel UHD Graphics 605
iGPU core count6no data
Number of pipelines384no data
Max video memoryno data8 GB
Quick Sync Videono data+
Enduro+no data
Switchable graphics1no data
UVD+no data
VCE+no data
Graphics max frequencyno data750 MHz
Execution Unitsno data18

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pro A10-8700B and Pentium Silver N5030 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data3
eDPno data+
DisplayPort++
HDMI++
MIPI-DSIno data+

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pro A10-8700B and Pentium Silver N5030 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution supportno data+
Max resolution over HDMI 1.4no data4096x2160@30Hz
Max resolution over eDPno data4096x2160@60Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPortno data4096x2160@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pro A10-8700B and Pentium Silver N5030 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXDirectX® 1212
OpenGLno data4.4
Vulkan1no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pro A10-8700B and Pentium Silver N5030.

PCIe version3.02.0
PCI Express lanesno data6
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.

Pro A10-8700B 1.44
Pentium Silver N5030 1.70
+18.1%

Pentium Silver N5030 outperforms Pro A10-8700B by 18% in our combined benchmark results.


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%

Pro A10-8700B 2217
Pentium Silver N5030 2613
+17.9%

Pentium Silver N5030 outperforms Pro A10-8700B by 18% in Passmark.

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%

Pro A10-8700B 474
+29.5%
Pentium Silver N5030 366

Pro A10-8700B outperforms Pentium Silver N5030 by 30% 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%

Pro A10-8700B 999
+21.7%
Pentium Silver N5030 821

Pro A10-8700B outperforms Pentium Silver N5030 by 22% 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%

Pro A10-8700B 2200
Pentium Silver N5030 2498
+13.5%

Pentium Silver N5030 outperforms Pro A10-8700B 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%

Pro A10-8700B 5907
Pentium Silver N5030 7724
+30.8%

Pentium Silver N5030 outperforms Pro A10-8700B by 31% 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%

Pro A10-8700B 2798
Pentium Silver N5030 3895
+39.2%

Pentium Silver N5030 outperforms Pro A10-8700B by 39% 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%

Pro A10-8700B 30.7
Pentium Silver N5030 14.65
+110%

Pro A10-8700B outperforms Pentium Silver N5030 by 110% 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%

Pro A10-8700B 2
Pentium Silver N5030 3
+34.9%

Pentium Silver N5030 outperforms Pro A10-8700B by 35% 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%

Pro A10-8700B 192
Pentium Silver N5030 226
+17.7%

Pentium Silver N5030 outperforms Pro A10-8700B by 18% 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%

Pro A10-8700B 70
Pentium Silver N5030 81
+15.6%

Pentium Silver N5030 outperforms Pro A10-8700B by 16% 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%

Pro A10-8700B 0.82
Pentium Silver N5030 1.02
+24.4%

Pentium Silver N5030 outperforms Pro A10-8700B by 24% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core.

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%

Pro A10-8700B 897
Pentium Silver N5030 1163
+29.7%

Pentium Silver N5030 outperforms Pro A10-8700B by 30% 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%

Pro A10-8700B 45
Pentium Silver N5030 84
+85%

Pentium Silver N5030 outperforms Pro A10-8700B by 85% 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%

Pro A10-8700B 9
Pentium Silver N5030 18
+93.8%

Pentium Silver N5030 outperforms Pro A10-8700B by 94% in x264 encoding pass 2.

Gaming performance

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 1.44 1.70
Integrated graphics card 1.17
Recency 3 June 2015 4 November 2019
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 6 Watt

The Pentium Silver N5030 is our recommended choice as it beats the Pro A10-8700B in performance tests.


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