Pentium Silver N5000 vs Ryzen Z2 Go
Aggregate performance score
Ryzen Z2 outperforms Pentium Silver N5000 by a whopping 404% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Contents
Primary details
Comparing processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | 1179 | 2411 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | no data | 0.22 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Series | AMD Rembrandt (Zen 3+) | Intel Pentium Silver |
| Power efficiency | no data | 24.66 |
| Designer | AMD | Intel |
| Manufacturer | no data | Intel |
| Architecture codename | Rembrandt R (2025) | Goldmont Plus (2017) |
| Release date | 6 January 2025 (less than a year ago) | 11 December 2017 (7 years ago) |
| Launch price (MSRP) | no data | $161 |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance per price, higher is better.
Performance to price scatter graph
Detailed specifications
Ryzen Z2 Go and Pentium Silver N5000 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 cores | 4 (Quad-Core) | 4 (Quad-Core) |
| Threads | 8 | 4 |
| Base clock speed | 3 GHz | 1.1 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | 4.3 GHz | 2.7 GHz |
| Multiplier | no data | 11 |
| L1 cache | 256 KB | 56 KB (per core) |
| L2 cache | 2 MB | 4 MB (shared) |
| L3 cache | 8 MB | 4 MB |
| Chip lithography | 6 nm | 14 nm |
| Die size | no data | 93 mm2 |
| Maximum core temperature | no data | 105 °C |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | no data | + |
Compatibility
Information on Ryzen Z2 Go and Pentium Silver N5000 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 configuration | no data | 1 (Uniprocessor) |
| Socket | no data | FCBGA1090 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 2 MB + 8 MB | 6 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen Z2 Go and Pentium Silver N5000. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT | Intel® SSE4.2 |
| AES-NI | - | + |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | no data | + |
| Speed Shift | no data | - |
| Turbo Boost Technology | no data | - |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | no data | - |
| Idle States | no data | + |
| Thermal Monitoring | - | + |
| Smart Response | no data | - |
| GPIO | no data | + |
| Turbo Boost Max 3.0 | no data | - |
Security technologies
Ryzen Z2 Go and Pentium Silver N5000 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| EDB | no data | + |
| MPX | - | + |
| Identity Protection | - | + |
| SGX | no data | Yes with Intel® ME |
| OS Guard | no data | + |
| Anti-Theft | no data | - |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen Z2 Go and Pentium Silver N5000 are enumerated here.
| VT-d | no data | + |
| VT-x | no data | + |
| EPT | no data | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen Z2 Go and Pentium Silver N5000. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | no data | DDR4 |
| Maximum memory size | no data | 8 GB |
| Max memory channels | no data | 2 |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | no data | 38.397 GB/s |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon 680M | Intel UHD Graphics 605 |
| Max video memory | no data | 8 GB |
| Quick Sync Video | - | + |
| Graphics max frequency | no data | 750 MHz |
| Execution Units | no data | 18 |
Graphics interfaces
Available interfaces and connections of Ryzen Z2 Go and Pentium Silver N5000 integrated GPUs.
| Number of displays supported | no data | 3 |
| eDP | no data | + |
| DisplayPort | - | + |
| HDMI | - | + |
| MIPI-DSI | no data | + |
Graphics image quality
Maximum display resolutions supported by Ryzen Z2 Go and Pentium Silver N5000 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.
| 4K resolution support | no data | + |
Graphics API support
APIs supported by Ryzen Z2 Go and Pentium Silver N5000 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.
| DirectX | no data | 12 |
| OpenGL | no data | 4.4 |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen Z2 Go and Pentium Silver N5000.
| PCIe version | no data | 2.0 |
| PCI Express lanes | no data | 6 |
| USB revision | no data | 2.0/3.0 |
| Total number of SATA ports | no data | 2 |
| Number of USB ports | no data | 8 |
| Integrated LAN | no data | - |
| UART | no data | + |
Synthetic benchmarks
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.
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. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-core performance.
Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.
Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core
7-Zip Single
7-Zip
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 6.96 | 1.38 |
| Integrated graphics card | 9.13 | 1.08 |
| Recency | 6 January 2025 | 11 December 2017 |
| Threads | 8 | 4 |
| Chip lithography | 6 nm | 14 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 2 Watt | 6 Watt |
Ryzen Z2 Go has a 404.3% higher aggregate performance score, 745.4% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 7 years, 100% more threads, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 200% lower power consumption.
The AMD Ryzen Z2 Go is our recommended choice as it beats the Intel Pentium Silver N5000 in performance tests.
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