Intel Xeon E5-4648 v3 vs Intel Pentium Silver N5000

Comparative analysis of Intel Xeon E5-4648 v3 and Intel Pentium Silver N5000 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Peripherals, Security & Reliability, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization, Graphics, Graphics interfaces, Graphics image quality, Graphics API support. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Xeon E5-4648 v3

  • 8 more cores, run more applications at once: 12 vs 4
  • 20 more threads: 24 vs 4
  • 96x more maximum memory size: 768 GB vs 8 GB
  • Around 16% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1317 vs 1136
  • 3.5x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 9061 vs 2617
Specifications (specs)
Number of cores 12 vs 4
Number of threads 24 vs 4
Maximum memory size 768 GB vs 8 GB
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 4 vs 1
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 1317 vs 1136
PassMark - CPU mark 9061 vs 2617

Reasons to consider the Intel Pentium Silver N5000

  • Around 23% higher clock speed: 2.70 GHz vs 2.20 GHz
  • Around 21% higher maximum core temperature: 105 °C vs 87°C
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 14 nm vs 22 nm
  • 17.5x lower typical power consumption: 6 Watt vs 105 Watt
Maximum frequency 2.70 GHz vs 2.20 GHz
Maximum core temperature 105 °C vs 87°C
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 22 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 6 Watt vs 105 Watt

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: Intel Xeon E5-4648 v3
CPU 2: Intel Pentium Silver N5000

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1317
1136
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
9061
2617
Name Intel Xeon E5-4648 v3 Intel Pentium Silver N5000
PassMark - Single thread mark 1317 1136
PassMark - CPU mark 9061 2617
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 433
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 1226
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 719
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2072
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3495
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 719
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2072
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3495

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Xeon E5-4648 v3 Intel Pentium Silver N5000

Essentials

Architecture codename Haswell Gemini Lake
Launch date Q2'15 11 December 2017
Place in performance rating 1687 1678
Processor Number E5-4648V3 N5000
Series Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v3 Family Intel® Pentium® Silver Processor Series
Status Launched Launched
Vertical segment Embedded Mobile
Launch price (MSRP) $161

Performance

64 bit support
Base frequency 1.70 GHz 1.10 GHz
Bus Speed 8 GT/s QPI
Manufacturing process technology 22 nm 14 nm
Maximum core temperature 87°C 105 °C
Maximum frequency 2.20 GHz 2.70 GHz
Number of cores 12 4
Number of QPI Links 2
Number of threads 24 4
L2 cache 4 MB

Memory

Max memory channels 4 2
Maximum memory bandwidth 68 GB/s
Maximum memory size 768 GB 8 GB
Supported memory types DDR4 DDR4/LPDDR4 upto 2400 MT/s

Compatibility

Low Halogen Options Available
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 4 1
Package Size 52.5mm x 51mm 25mm x 24mm
Sockets supported FCLGA2011-3 FCBGA1090
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 105 Watt 6 Watt
Scenario Design Power (SDP) 4.8 W
Thermal Solution 105 deg C

Peripherals

Max number of PCIe lanes 40 6
PCI Express revision 3.0 2.0
PCIe configurations x4, x8, x16 1x4 + 1x2 or 4x1 or 2x1+1x2 + 1x2
Scalability 4S
Integrated LAN
Integrated Wireless Intel® Wireless-AC MAC
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports 2
Number of USB ports 8
Total number of SATA ports 2
UART
USB revision 2.0/3.0

Security & Reliability

Execute Disable Bit (EDB)
Intel® OS Guard
Intel® Secure Key technology
Intel® Trusted Execution technology (TXT)
Anti-Theft technology
Intel® Identity Protection technology
Intel® Memory Protection Extensions (Intel® MPX)
Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX)

Advanced Technologies

Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology
Idle States
Instruction set extensions Intel® AVX2
Intel 64
Intel® AES New Instructions
Intel® Flex Memory Access
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology
Intel® Instruction Replay Technology
Intel® TSX-NI
Intel® Turbo Boost technology
Physical Address Extensions (PAE) 46-bit
Thermal Monitoring
General-Purpose Input/Output (GPIO)
Intel® Optane™ Memory Supported
Intel® Smart Response technology
Intel® vPro™ Platform Eligibility
Speed Shift technology

Virtualization

Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)
Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)

Graphics

Device ID 0x3184
Execution Units 18
Graphics base frequency 200 MHz
Graphics max dynamic frequency 750 MHz
Max video memory 8 GB
Processor graphics Intel® UHD Graphics 605

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
eDP
HDMI
MIPI-DSI
Number of displays supported 3

Graphics image quality

4K resolution support

Graphics API support

DirectX 12
OpenGL 4.4