AMD A12-9720P vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs Intel Pentium Silver Series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1234 points

1259 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2365 points

2% slightly better gaming score

2315 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

930 points

966 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

891 points

927 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.71 points

17.73 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1190 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1090 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

529 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

473 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

6 W

150% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

891st of 1,089

879th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4 LPDDR4x

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A12-9720P vs Pentium Silver N6000 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Silver N6000 beats the A12-9720P in overall performance. Despite this, the A12-9720P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. The Pentium Silver N6000 outputs less heat than A12-9720P thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the A12-9720P has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.