Intel Core i5-3230M vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Intel Core i5 Intel Pentium
• Generation
  3 9
• CPU group
  Intel Core i 3000M Intel Pentium J5000/N5000

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
  2.60 GHz 1.10 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.20 GHz 3.10 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• 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 HD Graphics 4000 Intel UHD Graphics 605
• GPU frequency
  0.65 GHz 0.25 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  1.10 GHz 0.75 GHz
• Execution units
  16 18
• Shader
  128 144
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 8 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  7 9.5
• DirectX Version
  11.0 12
• Technology
  22 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2011 Q4/2017

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Pentium Silver N5030 and Intel Core i5-3230M. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1600
• Max. Memory
  32 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 2.0
• PCIe lanes
  16 6

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i5-3230M and Intel Pentium Silver N5030 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  35 W 6 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i5-3230M and Intel Core i5-3230M, 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, AVX SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L3-Cache
  3.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Ivy Bridge H Gemini Lake
• Technology
  22 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1023 BGA 1090
• Release date
  Q1/2013 Q4/2019