amd ryzen 5 5500u vs intel pentium silver n5030
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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U (Laptop) 6-cores against Intel Pentium Silver N5030 (Laptop) 4-cores. In this comparison page, we check which of these two processor has better performance in benchmark results, Games, architecture, price and other useful information.
Review
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Key Differences
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
- Newer released 2 years later
- Has 2 more physical cores
- Has 4 MB larger L3 cache size
- 22% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4 GHz vs 3.1 GHz)
- Newer PCI Express version – 3
- More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 14
- Supports up to 64 GB DDR4-4266 RAM
Advantages of Intel Pentium Silver N5030
- Newer released 2019 years later
- Consumes up to 76% less energy than the AMD Ryzen 5 5500U – 6 vs 25 Watt
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
Specifications
General
| AMD Ryzen 5 5500U | Intel Pentium Silver N5030 | |
| Vendor | AMD | Intel |
| Released | January 7 2021 | November 4 2019 |
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
| instruction set | x86-64 | x86-64 |
| Codename | Lucienne U | Gemini Lake Refresh |
| Socket | FP6 | FCBGA1090 |
| Integrated GPU | AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 | Intel UHD Graphics 605 |
Performance
| AMD Ryzen 5 5500U | Intel Pentium Silver N5030 | |
| Cores | 6 | 4 |
| Threads | 12 | 4 |
| Base Frequency | 2.1 GHz | 1.1 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency | 4 GHz | 3.1 GHz |
| L1 Cache | 64K (per core) | |
| L2 Cache | 512K (per core) | 4 MB |
| L3 Cache | 8 MB (shared) | 4 MB |
Power
| AMD Ryzen 5 5500U | Intel Pentium Silver N5030 | |
| Fabrication process | 7 nm | 14 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 25 W | 6 W |
| Max. temperature | 105°C | 105°C |
Memory support
| AMD Ryzen 5 5500U | Intel Pentium Silver N5030 | |
| Memory types | DDR4-4266 | DDR4, DDR4 |
| Memory Size | 64 GB | 8 GB |
| Max. Memory Channels | 2 | |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | - | - |
| ECC Support | No | No |
iGPU
| AMD Ryzen 5 5500U | Intel Pentium Silver N5030 | |
| Integrated Graphics | AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 | Intel UHD Graphics 605 |
| GPU Base Clock | 300 MHz | MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | MHz | 750 MHz |
| Shading Units | 448 | |
| TMUs | 28 | |
| ROPs | 7 | |
| Execution Units | 18 | |
| TGP | 0 W | W |
iGPU FLOPS
Misc
| AMD Ryzen 5 5500U | Intel Pentium Silver N5030 | |
| Official site | AMD Ryzen 5 5500U official page | Intel Pentium Silver N5030 official page |
| PCI Express Version | 3 | 2 |
| PCI Express Lanes | 6 |