Intel Pentium Silver J5040 vs AMD Ryzen 5 1600X

Last updated: 2024-03-18

CPU comparison with benchmarks


Intel Pentium Silver J5040		AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
CPU comparison Intel Pentium Silver J5040 or AMD Ryzen 5 1600X - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results. The Intel Pentium Silver J5040 has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.20 GHz. Up to 8 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The Intel Pentium Silver J5040 was released in Q4/2019. The AMD Ryzen 5 1600X has 6 cores with 12 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.70 GHz. The CPU supports up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 5 1600X was released in Q1/2017.

Intel Pentium (150)	Family	AMD Ryzen 5 (84)
Intel Pentium J5000/N5000 (4)	CPU group	AMD Ryzen 1000 (15)
9	Generation	1
Gemini Lake	Architecture	Summit Ridge (Zen)
Mobile	Segment	Desktop / Server
--	Predecessor	--
--	Successor	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency The Intel Pentium Silver J5040 is a 4 core processor with a clock frequency of 2.00 GHz (3.20 GHz). The AMD Ryzen 5 1600X has 6 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 3.30 GHz (3.70 GHz).
Intel Pentium Silver J5040	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
4	Cores	6
4	Threads	12
normal	Core architecture	normal
No	Hyperthreading	Yes
No	Overclocking ?	Yes
2.00 GHz	Frequency	3.30 GHz
3.20 GHz	Turbo Frequency (1 Core)	3.70 GHz
2.40 GHz	Turbo Frequency (All Cores)	3.50 GHz

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.
Intel Pentium Silver J5040	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
--	AI hardware	--
--	AI specifications	--

Internal Graphics The integrated graphics unit of a processor is not only responsible for the pure image output on the system, but can also significantly increase the efficiency of the system with the support of modern video codecs.
Intel UHD Graphics 605	GPU	no iGPU
0.25 GHz	GPU frequency	--
0.80 GHz	GPU (Turbo)	--
9.5	GPU Generation	--
14 nm	Technology
3	Max. displays
18	Compute units	--
144	Shader	--
No	Hardware Raytracing	No
No	Frame Generation	No
8 GB	Max. GPU Memory	--
12	DirectX Version	--

Hardware codec support A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
Intel UHD Graphics 605	GPU	no iGPU
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No
Decode / Encode	Codec h264	No
Decode / Encode	Codec VP9	No
Decode / Encode	Codec VP8	No
No	Codec AV1	No
Decode / Encode	Codec AVC	No
Decode	Codec VC-1	No
Decode / Encode	Codec JPEG	No

Memory & PCIe The Intel Pentium Silver J5040 supports a maximum of 8 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 5 1600X can connect up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels.
Intel Pentium Silver J5040	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
LPDDR4-2400, DDR4-2400	Memory	DDR4-2666
8 GB	Max. Memory	64 GB
2 (Dual Channel)	Memory channels	2 (Dual Channel)
38.4 GB/s	Max. Bandwidth	42.7 GB/s
No	ECC	Yes
--	L2 Cache	--
4.00 MB	L3 Cache	16.00 MB
2.0	PCIe version	3.0
6	PCIe lanes	20
3.0 GB/s	PCIe Bandwidth	19.7 GB/s
Thermal Management The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The Intel Pentium Silver J5040 has a TDP of 10 W, that of the AMD Ryzen 5 1600X is 95 W.
Intel Pentium Silver J5040	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
10 W	TDP (PL1 / PBP)	95 W
--	TDP (PL2)	--
--	TDP up	--
--	TDP down	--
105 °C	Tjunction max.	95 °C
Technical details The Intel Pentium Silver J5040 has a 4.00 MB cache, while the AMD Ryzen 5 1600X cache has a total of 16.00 MB.
Intel Pentium Silver J5040	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
14 nm	Technology	14 nm
Monolithic	Chip design	Monolithic
x86-64 (64 bit)	Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2	ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
BGA 1090	Socket	AM4 (PGA 1331)
VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d	Virtualization	AMD-V, SVM
Yes	AES-NI	Yes
Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux
Q4/2019	Release date	Q1/2017
--	Release price	245 $

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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 5 CPU benchmarks

Intel Pentium Silver J5040 (53%)

AMD Ryzen 5 1600X (100%)

⌀ Multi core performance in 6 CPU benchmarks

Intel Pentium Silver J5040 (27%)

AMD Ryzen 5 1600X (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Pentium Silver J5040 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	517 (55%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 1600X 6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz	942 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Pentium Silver J5040 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	1640 (25%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 1600X 6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz	6470 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Pentium Silver J5040 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	542 (57%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 1600X 6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz	950 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Pentium Silver J5040 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	1773 (34%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 1600X 6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz	5220 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	Intel Pentium Silver J5040 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	435 (37%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 1600X 6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz	1167 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	Intel Pentium Silver J5040 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	1244 (24%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 1600X 6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz	5089 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Pentium Silver J5040 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	197 (51%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 1600X 6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz	389 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Pentium Silver J5040 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	730 (26%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 1600X 6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz	2764 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	Intel Pentium Silver J5040 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	3460 (26%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 1600X 6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz	13207 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Pentium Silver J5040 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	95 (63%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 1600X 6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz	151 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Pentium Silver J5040 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	317 (28%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 1600X 6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz	1126 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)

The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.


	Intel Pentium Silver J5040 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 1600X 6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz	59 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)

The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.


	Intel Pentium Silver J5040 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 1600X 6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz	411 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.


	Intel Pentium Silver J5040 Intel UHD Graphics 605 @ 0.80 GHz	230 (100%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 1600X @ 0.00 GHz	0 (0%)

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.


	Intel Pentium Silver J5040 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 1600X 6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz	323.8 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	Intel Pentium Silver J5040 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 1600X 6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz	415 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	Intel Pentium Silver J5040 4C 4T @ 2.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 1600X 6C 12T @ 3.30 GHz	3367 (100%)

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