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Intel Core i7-950 vs Intel Pentium Silver N5000

Last updated: 2026-06-05

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-950

Rank 2 - 69 %

Intel Pentium Silver N5000

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-950

Rank 2 - 60 %

Intel Pentium Silver N5000

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.33 GHz

590

4C / 4T · 2.70 GHz

364

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.06 GHz

1,965

4C / 4T · 2.70 GHz

965

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.33 GHz

569

4C / 4T · 2.70 GHz

434

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.06 GHz

2,313

4C / 4T · 2.70 GHz

1,304

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.06 GHz

1,442

4C / 4T · 1.10 GHz

740

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-950	Intel Pentium Silver N5000
Family	Intel Core i7 (300)	Intel Pentium (150)
CPU group	Intel Core i7 900 (7)	Intel Pentium J5000/N5000 (4)
Architecture	Bloomfield	Gemini Lake
Technology	45 nm	14 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1366	BGA 1090
Predecessor
Successor		Intel Pentium Silver N6000

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-950	Intel Pentium Silver N5000
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 8	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	4x
Frequency:	3.06 GHz	1.10 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	3.33 GHz	2.70 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):		2.70 GHz
L2-Cache	1.00 MB
L3-Cache	8.00 MB	4.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-950	Intel Pentium Silver N5000
GPU name	no iGPU	Intel UHD Graphics 605
GPU frequency		0.20 - 0.75 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	18 / 144
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays		3
Max. GPU Memory		8 GB
Technology		14 nm
Release date		Q4/2017

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-950	Intel Pentium Silver N5000
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-950	Intel Pentium Silver N5000
Memory	DDR3-1066 (25.6 GB/s)	LPDDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s) DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	24 GB	8 GB
Memory channels	3	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		2.0 x 6
PCIe Bandwidth		3.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-950	Intel Pentium Silver N5000
TDP	130 W	6 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down		4.8 W
T. junction max.		105 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-950	Intel Pentium Silver N5000
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2	SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release date	Q2/2009	Q4/2017
Release price	305 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i7-950 is 4.3 stars (9 ratings), while Intel Pentium Silver N5000 has received 3.9 stars (42 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i7-950
4C / 8T · 3.06 - 3.33 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Pentium Silver N5000
4C / 4T · 1.10 - 2.70 GHz

★★★★★