AMD A6-6310 vs Intel Pentium Silver N5000

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 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

689 points

905 points

31% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1300 points

1718 points

32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

521 points

682 points

30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

500 points

652 points

30% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

6.97 points

9.48 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

574 points

870 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

224 points

354 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

600 points

860 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

228 points

345 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.8 GHz

63% significantly higher clock speed

1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

6 W

150% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,034th of 1,089

982nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops

Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A6-6310 vs Pentium Silver N5000 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Silver N5000 is faster than the A6-6310. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-6310 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A6-6310 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5000. The Pentium Silver N5000 outputs less heat than A6-6310 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 A6-6310 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.