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Intel Pentium Silver J5040 vs Intel Core i5-8500B

Last updated: 2026-07-05

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 44 %

Intel Pentium Silver J5040

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-8500B

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 32 %

Intel Pentium Silver J5040

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-8500B

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.20 GHz

517 pts

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

1,052 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

1,640 pts

6C / 6T · 3.70 GHz

5,612 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.20 GHz

435

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

1,364

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

1,244

6C / 6T · 3.70 GHz

5,220

Cinebench R20 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.20 GHz

197 cb

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

403 cb

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

4C / 4T · 3.20 GHz

542

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

1,086

Cinebench R20 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

730 cb

6C / 6T · 3.70 GHz

2,287 cb

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

4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

1,773

6C / 6T · 3.70 GHz

4,689

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel UHD Graphics 605

230

Intel UHD Graphics 630

442

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.20 GHz

95 cb

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

174 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

317 cb

6C / 6T · 3.70 GHz

934 cb

More benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

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

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 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

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Pentium Silver J5040	Intel Core i5-8500B
Family	Intel Pentium (150)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Intel Pentium J5000/N5000 (4)	Intel Core i 8000 (20)
Architecture	Gemini Lake	Coffee Lake S
Technology	14 nm	14 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket	BGA 1090	BGA 1440
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Pentium Silver J5040	Intel Core i5-8500B
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	6 / 6
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	6x
Frequency:	2.00 GHz	3.00 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	3.20 GHz	4.10 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	2.40 GHz	3.70 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	4.00 MB	9.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Pentium Silver J5040	Intel Core i5-8500B
GPU name	Intel UHD Graphics 605	Intel UHD Graphics 630
GPU frequency	0.25 - 0.80 GHz	0.35 - 1.15 GHz
CUs / Shader	18 / 144	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	8 GB	64 GB
Technology	14 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q4/2017	Q4/2017

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Pentium Silver J5040	Intel Core i5-8500B
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Pentium Silver J5040	Intel Core i5-8500B
Memory	LPDDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s) DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)
Max. Memory	8 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	2.0 x 6	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	3.0 GB/s	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Pentium Silver J5040	Intel Core i5-8500B
TDP	10 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	105 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Pentium Silver J5040	Intel Core i5-8500B
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, 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, AVX2
Release date	Q4/2019	Q1/2018
Release price		190 $
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 Pentium Silver J5040 is 3.5 stars (14 ratings), while Intel Core i5-8500B has received 5.0 stars (3 ratings).

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Intel Pentium Silver J5040
4C / 4T · 2.00 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-8500B
6C / 6T · 3.00 - 4.10 GHz

★★★★★