AMD A8-6600K vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 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

1366 points

8% slightly better overall score

1259 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2599 points

12% slightly better gaming score

2315 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1031 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

966 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

989 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

927 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.74 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

17.73 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1081 points

1090 points

0.83% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

473 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

254% significantly higher clock speed

1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

6 W

983% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

848th of 1,089

879th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

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

DDR3

DDR4 LPDDR4x

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A8-6600K vs Pentium Silver N6000 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Silver N6000 is faster than the A8-6600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6600K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Pentium Silver N6000 has significantly more cores than the A8-6600K. Indeed, the Pentium Silver N6000 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A8-6600K. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-6600K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium Silver N6000.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the A8-6600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.