AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Compare AMD 2 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

908 points

1259 points

38% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points

2315 points

22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points

966 points

45% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points

927 points

45% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.11 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

17.73 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1036 points

1090 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points

473 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

100 W

6 W

1566% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

979th 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

A8-5600K vs Pentium Silver N6000 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Silver N6000 performs better than the A8-5600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5600K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium Silver N6000 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A8-5600K has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. The Pentium Silver N6000 outputs less heat than A8-5600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the A8-5600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.