Intel Pentium Silver N5000 Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2023-04-20

The Intel Pentium Silver N5000 has 4 cores with 4 threads and is based on the 9. gen of the Intel Pentium series. The processor uses a mainboard with the BGA 1090 socket and was released in Q4/2017. The Intel Pentium Silver N5000 scores 434 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 1,304 points.

CPU lineage
The segment in which we have classified the Intel Pentium Silver N5000. Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the Intel Pentium Silver N5000.
Name:	Intel Pentium Silver N5000
Family:	Intel Pentium
CPU group:	Intel Pentium J5000/N5000
Architecture:	Gemini Lake
Segment:	Mobile
Generation:	9
Predecessor:	--
Successor:	Intel Pentium Silver N6000

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Pentium Silver N5000 has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Pentium Silver N5000 is 1.10 GHz (2.70 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads:	4 / 4
Core architecture:	normal
Cores:	4x

Hyperthreading / SMT:	No
Overclocking:	No
Frequency:	1.10 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	2.70 GHz
Turbo Frequency (4 Cores):	2.70 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.

AI hardware:	--
AI specifications:	--

Internal Graphics

The Intel Pentium Silver N5000 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Pentium Silver N5000 uses the Intel UHD Graphics 605, which has 144 texture shaders and 18 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name:	Intel UHD Graphics 605
GPU frequency:	0.20 GHz
GPU (Turbo):	0.75 GHz
Compute units:	18
Shader:	144
Max. GPU Memory:	8 GB

Max. displays:	3
Generation:	9.5
Direct X:	12
Technology:	14 nm
Release date:	Q4/2017

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.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit):	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit):	Decode / Encode
h264:	Decode / Encode
VP8:	Decode / Encode
VP9:	Decode / Encode

AV1:	No
AVC:	Decode / Encode
VC-1:	Decode
JPEG:	Decode / Encode

Memory type:	Memory bandwidth:
Memory & PCIe The processor can use up to 8 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 38.4 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

LPDDR4-2400 DDR4-2400	38.4 GB/s 38.4 GB/s
Max. Memory:	8 GB
Memory channels:	2 (Dual Channel)
ECC:	No
PCIe:	2.0 x 6
PCIe Bandwidth:	3.0 GB/s

Thermal Management The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 6 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP):	6 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	--
TDP down:	4.8 W
Tjunction max.:	105 °C

Technical details

The Intel Pentium Silver N5000 is made in 14 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 4.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology:	14 nm
Chip design:	Monolithic
Socket:	BGA 1090
L2-Cache:	--
L3-Cache:	4.00 MB
AES-NI:	Yes
Operating systems:	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux

Virtualization:	VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Instruction set (ISA):	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions:	SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release date:	Q4/2017
Release price:	--
Part Number:	--
Documents:	Technical data sheet

Intel Pentium Silver N5000
4C 4T @ 1.10 GHz (2.70 GHz)

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the Intel Pentium Silver N5000 have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.

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 Core i3-2330M 2C 4T @ 2.20 GHz	435
	Intel Core i5-2467M 2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz	435
	Intel Pentium B970 2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz	435
	Intel Pentium Silver N5000 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	434
	Intel Xeon E5-2603 v3 6C 6T @ 1.60 GHz	434
	Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	432
	Intel Core i3-4100U 2C 4T @ 1.80 GHz	432

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 Core i5-2510E 2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	1305
	Intel Core i5-2515E 2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	1305
	Intel Core i5-3437U 2C 4T @ 1.90 GHz	1305
	Intel Pentium Silver N5000 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	1304
	Intel Pentium G3240 2C 2T @ 3.10 GHz	1302
	AMD Phenom II X4 830 4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	1302
	AMD A8-6500 4C 4T @ 4.10 GHz	1299

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 Celeron N4000 2C 2T @ 2.60 GHz	365
	Intel Celeron N4000C 2C 2T @ 2.60 GHz	365
	UNISOC T606 8C 8T @ 1.60 GHz	365
	Intel Pentium Silver N5000 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	364
	Intel Pentium E6600 2C 2T @ 3.06 GHz	362
	Intel Celeron N4120 4C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	362
	Intel Celeron 3855U 2C 2T @ 1.60 GHz	361

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.


	Samsung Exynos 7885 8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz	970
	Intel Core i5-3337U 2C 4T @ 1.80 GHz	968
	Intel Core i5-4300Y 2C 4T @ 1.60 GHz	967
	Intel Pentium Silver N5000 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	965
	Apple A8X 3C 3T @ 1.50 GHz	959
	MediaTek Helio X20 10C 10T @ 2.10 GHz	958
	Intel Pentium G3220 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	957

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 Core 2 Quad Q9300 4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	178
	AMD A8-3870K 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	176
	AMD A6-5400K 2C 2T @ 3.80 GHz	174
	Intel Pentium Silver N5000 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	171
	AMD Phenom II X4 940 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	169
	AMD Phenom II X4 945 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	168
	Intel Core i3-2350M 2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz	165

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 Core i5-4300U 2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	499
	Intel Core i5-2520M 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	491
	Intel Core i5-4210M 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	483
	Intel Pentium Silver N5000 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	482
	AMD Athlon II X4 610e 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	476
	AMD Athlon II X4 620e 4C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	475
	Intel Pentium Gold 4417U 2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz	469

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 Core i5-3339Y Intel HD Graphics 4000 @ 0.85 GHz	218
	Intel Core i5-3439Y Intel HD Graphics 4000 @ 0.85 GHz	218
	AMD A6-4455M AMD Radeon HD 7500G @ 0.43 GHz	217
	Intel Pentium Silver N5000 Intel UHD Graphics 605 @ 0.75 GHz	216
	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 Intel UHD Graphics 605 @ 0.75 GHz	216
	Intel Pentium N4200 Intel HD Graphics 505 @ 0.75 GHz	216
	Intel Pentium J3710 Intel HD Graphics 405 (18EU) @ 0.74 GHz	213

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 Core i3-5157U 2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	2599
	Intel Core i5-760 4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	2592
	MediaTek Helio P70 8C 8T @ 2.10 GHz	2591
	Intel Pentium Silver N5000 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	2589
	Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz	2589
	Intel Celeron G5900T 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	2584
	Intel Core i5-4258U 2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	2578

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.


	AMD Athlon II X4 860K 4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	747
	AMD A10-5800K 4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	746
	Intel Core i5-5200U 2C 4T @ 2.20 GHz	743
	Intel Pentium Silver N5000 4C 4T @ 1.10 GHz	740
	AMD FX-4300 4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	739
	Intel Core i3-2100 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	738
	Intel Core i5-650 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	735

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.


	AMD Phenom II X2 545 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	79
	AMD Phenom II X2 B55 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	79
	AMD Phenom II X3 740 3C 3T @ 3.00 GHz	79
	Intel Pentium Silver N5000 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	78
	AMD Phenom II X6 1035T 6C 6T @ 3.10 GHz	78
	AMD Phenom II X4 940 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	78
	AMD FX-9800P 4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	77

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.


	AMD Athlon II X4 620e 4C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	249
	Intel Pentium G3430 2C 2T @ 3.30 GHz	249
	Intel Pentium G3440 2C 2T @ 3.30 GHz	249
	Intel Pentium Silver N5000 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	248
	Intel Core m7-6Y75 2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	247
	Intel Core i5-4350U 2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	246
	AMD A10-7850K 4C 4T @ 4.00 GHz	244

Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,399 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,372 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,648 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,599 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
641 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
588 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
1,925 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,319 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
725 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,102 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,097 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
941 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
937 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
825 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
836 entries

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