Pentium Silver N5030 vs Ryzen 7 2700U

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Aggregate performance score

Ryzen 7 2700U
2017
4 cores / 8 threads, 15 Watt
4.28
+163%
Pentium Silver N5030
2019
4 cores / 4 threads, 6 Watt
1.63

Ryzen 7 2700U outperforms Pentium Silver N5030 by a whopping 163% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 7 2700U and Pentium Silver N5030 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking13752088
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Ryzen 7Intel Gemini Lake
Power efficiency27.0025.71
Architecture codenameRaven Ridge (2017−2018)Gemini Lake Refresh (2019)
Release date26 October 2017 (7 years ago)4 November 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 7 2700U 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)
Threads84
Base clock speed2.2 GHz1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed2.2 GHz3.1 GHz
Multiplier22no data
L1 cache384 KBno data
L2 cache2 MB4 MB
L3 cache4 MB (shared)4 MB
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Die size209.78 mm2no data
Maximum core temperatureno data105 °C
Number of transistors4950 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 7 2700U 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
SocketFP5FCBGA1090
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 7 2700U and Pentium Silver N5030. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsXFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMTIntel® SSE4.2
AES-NI++
AVX+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Speed Shiftno data-
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data-
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Smart Responseno data-
GPIOno data+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-

Security technologies

Ryzen 7 2700U and Pentium Silver N5030 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

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

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 7 2700U and Pentium Silver N5030 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-
VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 7 2700U and Pentium Silver N5030. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4 Dual-channelDDR4
Maximum memory size32 GB8 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/sno data
ECC memory support+-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
Compare
AMD Radeon RX Vega 10 ( - 1300 MHz)Intel UHD Graphics 605
Max video memoryno data8 GB
Quick Sync Video-+
Graphics max frequencyno data750 MHz
Execution Unitsno data18

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Ryzen 7 2700U 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 Ryzen 7 2700U 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 Ryzen 7 2700U and Pentium Silver N5030 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXno data12
OpenGLno data4.4

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 7 2700U and Pentium Silver N5030.

PCIe version3.02.0
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.

Ryzen 7 2700U 4.28
+163%
Pentium Silver N5030 1.63

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.

Ryzen 7 2700U 6797
+162%
Pentium Silver N5030 2594

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.

Ryzen 7 2700U 818
+128%
Pentium Silver N5030 358

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.

Ryzen 7 2700U 2470
+215%
Pentium Silver N5030 785

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.

Ryzen 7 2700U 4515
+80.7%
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.

Ryzen 7 2700U 13729
+77.7%
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.

Ryzen 7 2700U 6072
+55.9%
Pentium Silver N5030 3895

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.

Ryzen 7 2700U 8.55
+71.3%
Pentium Silver N5030 14.65

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.

Ryzen 7 2700U 8
+144%
Pentium Silver N5030 3

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

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

Ryzen 7 2700U 644
+185%
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.

Ryzen 7 2700U 144
+77.4%
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.

Ryzen 7 2700U 1.65
+61.8%
Pentium Silver N5030 1.02

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.  

Ryzen 7 2700U 36
+107%
Pentium Silver N5030 18

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.  

Ryzen 7 2700U 128
+52.4%
Pentium Silver N5030 84

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Ryzen 7 2700U 2969
+143%
Pentium Silver N5030 1221

Blender(-)

Ryzen 7 2700U 713
Pentium Silver N5030 3450
+384%

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Ryzen 7 2700U 813
+58.8%
Pentium Silver N5030 512

7-Zip Single

Ryzen 7 2700U 3592
+35.8%
Pentium Silver N5030 2645

7-Zip

Ryzen 7 2700U 17317
+139%
Pentium Silver N5030 7238

WebXPRT 3

Ryzen 7 2700U 142
+48.8%
Pentium Silver N5030 95

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 4.28 1.63
Integrated graphics card 4.24 1.18
Recency 26 October 2017 4 November 2019
Threads 8 4
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 6 Watt

Ryzen 7 2700U has a 162.6% higher aggregate performance score, 259.3% faster integrated GPU, and 100% more threads.

Pentium Silver N5030, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and 150% lower power consumption.

The Ryzen 7 2700U is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium Silver N5030 in performance tests.


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