Intel Pentium Silver N6005 vs Intel Pentium Gold G5420. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Pentium N6000 Intel Pentium G5000
• Family
  Intel Pentium Intel Pentium
• Generation
  10 8
• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• A-Core
  -- Tremont -
• Base Frequency
  2 GHz 3.8 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.3 GHz No turbo
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  3 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - No turbo

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

• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Execution units
  32 12
• Generation
  11 9.5
• GPU Frequency
  500 MHz 350 MHz
• GPU name
  Intel UHD Graphics 32 EUs (Elkhart Lake) Intel HD Graphics 610
• GPU Turbo
  900 MHz 1050 MHz
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 32 GB
• Release date
  Q1/2021 Q3/2016
• Shader
  256 96
• Technology
  10 nm 14 nm

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

• AV1
  Decode No
• H.264 / AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Pentium Gold G5420 and Intel Pentium Silver N6005. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 64 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2933 DDR4-2400
• PCIe lanes
  12 16
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium Silver N6005 and Intel Pentium Gold G5420 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  10 W 54 W
• TDP (PL2)
  20 W -

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium Silver N6005 and Intel Pentium Gold G5420, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Jasper Lake Coffee Lake S
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L2-Cache
  1.5 MB -
• L3-Cache
  4 MB 4 MB
• Release date
  Q4/2021 Q2/2019
• Socket
  BGA 1090 LGA 1151
• Technology
  10 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d