Intel Pentium Silver N5030 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Pentium AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  9 5
• CPU group
  Intel Pentium J5000/N5000 AMD Ryzen 7000
• Predecessor
  -- AMD Ryzen 9 5950X

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 4.50 GHz
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• 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 no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  0.25 GHz --
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.75 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  18 --
• Shader
  144 --
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB --
• Max. displays
  3 --
• Generation
  9.5 --
• Technology
  14 nm --
• Release date
  Q4/2017 --

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 9 7950X and Intel Pentium Silver N5030. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR5-5200
• Max. Memory
  256 GB
• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium Silver N5030 and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  6 W 170 W
• TDP (PL2)
  -- 230 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 95 °C

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) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  -- 8.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 64.00 MB
• Architecture
  Gemini Lake Raphael (Zen 4)
• Technology
  14 nm 5 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1090 AM5
• Release date
  Q4/2019 Q4/2022