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Intel Pentium Silver N5030 vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U. Specifications, performance, tests

Overall score
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Released
Q4/2019
Intel Pentium Silver N5030
Intel Pentium Silver N5030
Released
Q1/2020
Overall score
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AMD Athlon Silver 3050U
AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

What's the best choice Intel Pentium Silver N5030 or AMD Athlon Silver 3050U? Which processor is faster?

We have prepared a comparison to help you choose the best processor. Compare their specifications and benchmarks.

Intel Pentium Silver N5030 has a maximum frequency of 1.10 GHz. 4 Cores. Power consumption of 6 W. Released in Q4/2019.

AMD Athlon Silver 3050U has a maximum frequency of 2.30 GHz. 2 Cores. Power consumption of 15 W. Released in Q1/2020.

Differences

  • Place in the overall ranking

    (based on several benchmarks)

    1657 left arrow score
  • More number of cores

    2 times more cores

    4 left arrow 2
  • Performance per watt

    times less performance per watt

    6 W left arrow 15 W

Positions in all rankings

Common positions Intel Pentium Silver N5030 CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

  • Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
    841 place
  • Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
    785 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
    1125 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
    1203 place
  • iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
    1286 place
  • Place in the overall ranking

    (based on several benchmarks)

    1285 left arrow score
  • Higher clock speed

    Around 52% better clock speed

    2.30 GHz left arrow 1.10 GHz
  • Higher turbo clock speed

    Around 3 % better overclocked clock speed

    3.20 GHz left arrow 3.10 GHz

Positions in all rankings

Common positions AMD Athlon Silver 3050U CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

  • Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)
    550 place
  • Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
    709 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
    919 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
    1187 place
  • iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
    859 place
  • Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
    278 place

Specifications

Technical data
Intel Pentium Silver N5030 Intel Pentium Silver N5030
AMD Athlon Silver 3050U AMD Athlon Silver 3050U
CPU family and group

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

  • Segment
    Mobile left arrow Mobile
  • Family
    Intel Pentium left arrow AMD Athlon
  • Generation
    9 left arrow 4
  • CPU group
    Intel Pentium J5000/N5000 left arrow AMD Athlon Silver 3000
CPU Technical specs

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 left arrow 2.30 GHz
  • CPU Cores
    4 left arrow 2
  • Turbo (1 Core)
    3.10 GHz left arrow 3.20 GHz
  • CPU Threads
    4 left arrow 2
  • Hyperthreading
    No left arrow No
  • Overclocking
    No left arrow No
  • Core architecture
    normal left arrow normal
IGPU

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 left arrow AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics
  • GPU frequency
    0.25 GHz left arrow 1.10 GHz
  • GPU (Turbo)
    0.75 GHz left arrow No turbo
  • Execution units
    18 left arrow 3
  • Shader
    144 left arrow 192
  • Max. GPU Memory
    8 GB left arrow 2 GB
  • Max. displays
    3 left arrow 3
  • Generation
    9.5 left arrow 8
  • DirectX Version
    12 left arrow 12
  • Technology
    14 nm left arrow 14 nm
  • Release date
    Q4/2017 left arrow Q1/2018
Hardware codec support

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

  • h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
    Decode / Encode left arrow Decode / Encode
  • h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
    Decode / Encode left arrow Decode / Encode
  • h264
    Decode / Encode left arrow Decode / Encode
  • VP9
    Decode / Encode left arrow Decode / Encode
  • VP8
    Decode / Encode left arrow Decode / Encode
  • AV1
    No left arrow No
  • AVC
    Decode / Encode left arrow Decode / Encode
  • VC-1
    Decode left arrow Decode
  • JPEG
    Decode / Encode left arrow Decode / Encode
Memory specs & PCI

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Athlon Silver 3050U and Intel Pentium Silver N5030. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

  • Max. Memory
    left arrow 32 GB
  • ECC
    No left arrow Yes
  • Memory channels
    2 left arrow 2
  • PCIe version
    2.0 left arrow 3.0
  • PCIe lanes
    6 left arrow 8
Encryption
  • AES-NI
    Yes left arrow Yes
Thermal Management

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium Silver N5030 and AMD Athlon Silver 3050U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

  • TDP (PL1)
    6 W left arrow 15 W
  • TDP up
    -- left arrow 25 W
  • TDP down
    -- left arrow 12 W
  • Tjunction max.
    -- left arrow 95 °C
Technologies and extensions

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium Silver N5030 and Intel Pentium Silver N5030, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

  • Instruction set (ISA)
    x86-64 (64 bit) left arrow x86-64 (64 bit)
  • Virtualization
    VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d left arrow AMD-V, SVM
  • ISA extensions
    SSE4.1, SSE4.2 left arrow SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
  • L3-Cache
    4.00 MB left arrow 4.00 MB
  • Architecture
    Gemini Lake left arrow Dali (Zen)
  • Technology
    14 nm left arrow 14 nm
  • Socket
    BGA 1090 left arrow FP5
  • Release date
    Q4/2019 left arrow Q1/2020

Benchmarks

Performance tests CPUs

Based on the results of several benchmarks, you can more accurately estimate the difference in performance between Intel Pentium Silver N5030 and AMD Athlon Silver 3050U.

Compare the synthetic test values and choose the best processor!

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
The Cinebench R15 SC stresses the computing modules of a desktop or laptop computer to their limits and accurately determines the key performance parameters of the hardware
91
Intel Pentium Silver N5030
122
AMD Athlon Silver 3050U
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 SC is a popular cross-platform performance test for desktop or mobile processors that uses system memory intensively
506
Intel Pentium Silver N5030
704
AMD Athlon Silver 3050U
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 MC is a popular cross-platform performance test for desktop or mobile processors that uses system memory intensively
1275
Intel Pentium Silver N5030
1312
AMD Athlon Silver 3050U
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
The performance of the iGPU - the internal GPU in games
216
Intel Pentium Silver N5030
422
AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

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