Intel Pentium Silver N5030 Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2023-04-20

The Intel Pentium Silver N5030 is a 4 core processor. It can handle 4 threads simultaneously and was introduced in Q4/2019. The Intel Pentium Silver N5030 is based on the 9. generation of the Intel Pentium series and requires a mainboard with the socket BGA 1090. The Intel Pentium Silver N5030 scores 500 points with one CPU core in the Geekbench 5 benchmark. When using all CPU cores, the result is 1,333 points.

CPU lineage
Here you can see which group the Intel Pentium Silver N5030 belongs to and which processor is the predecessor of the Intel Pentium Silver N5030.
Name:	Intel Pentium Silver N5030
Family:	Intel Pentium (150)
CPU group:	Intel Pentium J5000/N5000 (4)
Architecture:	Gemini Lake
Segment:	Mobile
Generation:	9
Predecessor:	--
Successor:	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The 4 CPU cores of the Intel Pentium Silver N5030 clock with 1.10 GHz (3.10 GHz). The number of CPU cores and the clock frequency of the processor are largely responsible for the overall performance.

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

Hyperthreading / SMT:	No
Overclocking:	No
Frequency:	1.10 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	3.10 GHz
Turbo Frequency (4 Cores):	2.40 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

With the Intel UHD Graphics 605, the Intel Pentium Silver N5030 has an build in graphic solution. It has 18 SM processors, which have a total of 144 texture shaders. The iGPU not only enables games, but also significantly accelerates video playback.

GPU name:	Intel UHD Graphics 605
GPU frequency:	0.25 GHz
GPU (Turbo):	0.75 GHz
Compute units:	18
Shader:	144
Hardware Raytracing:	No
Release date:	Q4/2017

Max. displays:	3
Generation:	9.5
Direct X:	12
Technology:	14 nm
Max. GPU Memory:	8 GB
Frame Generation:	No

Hardware codec support

Processors that have an integrated graphics can play videos faster and more efficiently. This can have a positive effect on the battery life of notebooks, for example.

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 Intel Pentium Silver N5030 supports up to 8 GB memory in up to 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. This results in a maximum memory bandwidth of 38.4 GB/s.

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 With the TDP, the processor manufacturer specifies the cooling solution required for the processor. The Intel Pentium Silver N5030 has a TDP of 6 W.

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

Technical details

The Intel Pentium Silver N5030 has a 4.00 MB large cache. The processor is manufactured in 14 nm. Modern production increases the efficiency of the processor.

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:	Q4/2019
Release price:	--
Part Number:	--
Documents:	Technical data sheet

Intel Pentium Silver N5030
4C 4T @ 1.10 GHz (3.10 GHz)

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the Intel Pentium Silver N5030 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.


	AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 6C 6T @ 3.30 GHz	502
	Intel Celeron 2970M 2C 2T @ 2.20 GHz	502
	AMD A8-5600K 4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz	501
	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	500
	AMD FX-8320E 8C 8T @ 4.00 GHz	500
	Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz	498
	Intel Xeon Bronze 3104 6C 6T @ 1.70 GHz	498

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 i5-2520M 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	1339
	HiSilicon Kirin 710A 8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz	1338
	Intel Core i7-4510U 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	1335
	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	1333
	AMD Athlon II X4 640 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	1332
	Intel Celeron G3900T 2C 2T @ 2.60 GHz	1330
	Intel Core i7-2620M 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	1328

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 Atom C5325 8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz	462
	Intel Core i7-860 4C 8T @ 3.46 GHz	462
	Intel Atom C5315 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	460
	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	458
	Intel Core i7-860S 4C 8T @ 3.46 GHz	451
	Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 8C 8T @ 2.30 GHz	450
	Intel Xeon E5450 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	448

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 Core i3-4012Y 2C 4T @ 1.50 GHz	988
	Intel Core i5-2410M 2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz	987
	Intel Celeron G4900T 2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz	982
	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	979
	Intel Pentium G3450T 2C 2T @ 2.90 GHz	978
	Intel Pentium 4405U 2C 4T @ 2.10 GHz	972
	Intel Pentium Gold 4417U 2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz	971

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 N5030 Intel UHD Graphics 605 @ 0.75 GHz	216
	Intel Pentium Silver N5000 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

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 Core i5-4288U 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	21
	Intel Core i3-1005G1 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	18
	Intel Celeron J4125 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	14
	Intel Pentium Silver J5005 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	13
	Intel Celeron J3455 4C 4T @ 2.20 GHz	11
	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	10
	AMD A9-9425 2C 2T @ 3.10 GHz	4

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 i5-4288U 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	2644
	Intel Core i5-3320M 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	2642
	Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9775 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	2641
	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	2639
	Intel Core i3-6100U 2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz	2630
	Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	2628
	Samsung Exynos 850 8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz	2621

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 521 2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz	92
	AMD Phenom II X4 970 4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	92
	Intel Celeron G1610 2C 2T @ 2.60 GHz	92
	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	91
	AMD FX-8320E 8C 8T @ 4.00 GHz	91
	Intel Celeron G1820T 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	91
	AMD FX-8320 8C 8T @ 4.00 GHz	91

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 Celeron G5920 2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz	266
	Intel Core m3-7Y32 2C 4T @ 1.10 GHz	266
	Intel Pentium G4500 2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz	266
	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	265
	AMD Athlon II X4 635 4C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	265
	Intel Core i5-5200U 2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	264
	Intel Core i5-5250U 2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	264

Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,488 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,461 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,755 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,703 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,042 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
212 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,392 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,106 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,101 entries

Description of the processor

The Intel Pentium Silver N5030 is a 4-core processor from Intel. It is based on the "Gemini Lake Refresh" design and combines 4 smaller CPU cores. Hyper-threading for doubling the CPU threads does not support the processor.

Its four CPU cores may clock the Intel Pentium Silver N5030 with up to 2.4 GHz, with the base frequency of the processor at low 1.1 GHz. Only one CPU core is loaded, but up to 3.1 GHz are possible. The Intel Pentium Silver N5030 has a very small TDP of only 6 watts and can therefore also be passively chilled in smaller notebooks. Thus, the Intel Pentium Silver N5030 is ideal for Office PCs or notebooks to be made to the low demands.

The processor is often offered with 2, 4 or 8 GB of memory, whereby 16 GB are possible. Maximum DDR4-2400 memory is supported, whereby the Intel Pentium Silver N5030 has two memory channels and thus comes to a fairly proper memory bandwidth. The ECC error correction method of the memory is not supported. This is often used in servers and workstations, in the private area ECC unfortunately could not really take foot.

The Intel Pentium Silver N5030 is soldered in the base BGA 1090 with the mainboard of the system and is therefore not interchangeable later. Intel has introduced the processor in the fourth quarter of 2019. Compared to its predecessor (based on "Gemini-Lake") Intel has raised only the clock frequencies of the Intel Pentium Silver N5030.

As an internal graphics solution, an Intel UHD Graphics 605 is installed. It represents the smallest expansion stage of the Intel UHD graphics and has only 18 execution units and 144 shaders. This does not use the graphics card for games or more demanding tasks.

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