Intel Pentium Silver N5000 vs Intel Pentium G4600. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Pentium Intel Pentium
• Generation
  9 7
• CPU group
  Intel Pentium J5000/N5000 Intel Pentium G4000

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  1.10 GHz 3.60 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.70 GHz No turbo
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  Intel UHD Graphics 605 Intel HD Graphics 630
• GPU frequency
  0.20 GHz 0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.75 GHz 1.10 GHz
• Execution units
  18 24
• Shader
  144 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 64 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  9.5 9.5
• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2017 Q2/2016

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Pentium G4600 and Intel Pentium Silver N5000. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4-2400
• Max. Memory
  8 GB
• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  2.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  6 16

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium Silver N5000 and Intel Pentium G4600 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  6 W 51 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium Silver N5000 and Intel Pentium Silver N5000, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 3.00 MB
• Architecture
  Gemini Lake Kaby Lake S
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1090 LGA 1151
• Release date
  Q4/2017 Q1/2017