Intel Pentium Silver N5000 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Intel Pentium AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  9 1
• CPU group
  Intel Pentium J5000/N5000 AMD Ryzen 2000U

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 2.20 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.70 GHz 3.80 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 8
• Turbo (4 Cores)
  2.70 GHz 3.40 GHz
• 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 AMD Radeon Vega 10 Graphics
• GPU frequency
  0.20 GHz 1.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.75 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  18 10
• Shader
  144 640
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  9.5 8
• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2017 Q1/2018

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 AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U 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 12

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium Silver N5000 and AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  6 W 15 W
• TDP up
  -- 25 W
• TDP down
  -- 12 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 95 °C

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 AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Gemini Lake Raven Ridge (Zen)
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1090 AM4
• Release date
  Q4/2017 Q4/2017