Intel Pentium Silver N5030 vs AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX

Last updated: 2023-09-08

CPU comparison with benchmarks


Intel Pentium Silver N5030		AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX
CPU comparison Intel Pentium Silver N5030 or AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX - 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 N5030 has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.10 GHz. Up to 8 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The Intel Pentium Silver N5030 was released in Q4/2019. The AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX has 24 cores with 48 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.50 GHz. The CPU supports up to 2048 GB of memory in 8 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX was released in Q1/2022.

Intel Pentium (150)	Family	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO (15)
Intel Pentium J5000/N5000 (4)	CPU group	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 (5)
9	Generation	4
Gemini Lake	Architecture	Chagall (Zen 3)
Mobile	Segment	Desktop / Server
--	Predecessor	--
--	Successor	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency The Intel Pentium Silver N5030 is a 4 core processor with a clock frequency of 1.10 GHz (3.10 GHz). The AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX has 24 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 3.80 GHz (4.50 GHz).
Intel Pentium Silver N5030	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX
4	Cores	24
4	Threads	48
normal	Core architecture	normal
No	Hyperthreading	Yes
No	Overclocking ?	No
1.10 GHz	Frequency	3.80 GHz
3.10 GHz	Turbo Frequency (1 Core)	4.50 GHz
2.40 GHz	Turbo Frequency (All Cores)	4.00 GHz


NPU AI performance The performance values of the processor's AI unit. The isolated NPU performance is specified here, the total AI performance (NPU+CPU+iGPU) can be higher. Processors with support for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors.
Intel Pentium Silver N5030	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX
--	AI hardware	--
--	AI specifications	--
--	NPU + CPU + iGPU	--

Integrated graphics (iGPU) 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	--
0.75 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 N5030 supports a maximum of 8 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX can connect up to 2048 GB of memory in 8 memory channels.
Intel Pentium Silver N5030	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX
LPDDR4-2400, DDR4-2400	Memory	DDR4-3200
8 GB	Max. Memory	2048 GB
2 (Dual Channel)	Memory channels	8 (Octa Channel)
38.4 GB/s	Max. Bandwidth	51.2 GB/s
No	ECC	Yes
--	L2 Cache	12.00 MB
4.00 MB	L3 Cache	128.00 MB
2.0	PCIe version	4.0
6	PCIe lanes	128
3.0 GB/s	PCIe Bandwidth	252.0 GB/s
Thermal Management The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The Intel Pentium Silver N5030 has a TDP of 6 W, that of the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX is 280 W.
Intel Pentium Silver N5030	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX
6 W	TDP (PL1 / PBP)	280 W
--	TDP (PL2)	--
--	TDP up	--
4.8 W	TDP down	--
105 °C	Tjunction max.	95 °C
Technical details The Intel Pentium Silver N5030 has a 4.00 MB cache, while the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX cache has a total of 140.00 MB.

Intel Pentium Silver N5030	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX
14 nm	Technology	7 nm
Monolithic	Chip design	Chiplet
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	WRX8 (sWRX8)
VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d	Virtualization	AMD-V, SVM
Yes	AES-NI	Yes
Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q4/2019	Release date	Q1/2022
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks

Intel Pentium Silver N5030 (27%)

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX (100%)

⌀ Multi core performance in 3 CPU benchmarks

Intel Pentium Silver N5030 (5%)

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX (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 N5030 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	500 (31%)
	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24C 48T @ 4.50 GHz	1604 (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 N5030 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	1333 (6%)
	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24C 48T @ 4.00 GHz	23928 (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 N5030 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	458 (22%)
	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24C 48T @ 4.50 GHz	2054 (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 N5030 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	979 (5%)
	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24C 48T @ 4.00 GHz	18846 (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 N5030 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	2639 (4%)
	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24C 48T @ 4.00 GHz	66490 (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 N5030 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24C 48T @ 4.50 GHz	91 (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 N5030 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24C 48T @ 4.50 GHz	2284 (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 N5030 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24C 48T @ 4.50 GHz	1508 (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 N5030 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24C 48T @ 4.00 GHz	40535 (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 N5030 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24C 48T @ 4.50 GHz	585 (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 N5030 Intel UHD Graphics 605 @ 0.75 GHz	216 (100%)
	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX @ 0.00 GHz	0 (0%)

Blender 3.1 Benchmark

In the Blender Benchmark 3.1, the scenes "monster", "junkshop" and "classroom" are rendered and the time required by the system is measured. In our benchmark we test the CPU and not the graphics card. Blender 3.1 was presented as a standalone version in March 2022.


	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	10 (100%)
	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24C 48T @ 4.00 GHz	0 (0%)

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 N5030 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	91 (100%)
	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24C 48T @ 4.50 GHz	0 (0%)

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 N5030 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	265 (100%)
	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24C 48T @ 4.00 GHz	0 (0%)

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