AMD A8-7650K 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

1322 points
5% slightly better overall score
1259 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points
9% slightly better gaming score
2315 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

994 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
966 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

952 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
927 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.32 points
3% slightly higher Blender score
17.73 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1052 points
1090 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

422 points
473 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
200% 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

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

863rd 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

2015 January
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

-
No

A8-7650K vs Pentium Silver N6000 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Silver N6000 performs better than the A8-7650K. Despite this, the A8-7650K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Pentium Silver N6000 has significantly more cores than the A8-7650K. Indeed, the Pentium Silver N6000 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A8-7650K. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A8-7650K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N6000. The Pentium Silver N6000 outputs less heat than A8-7650K 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 A8-7650K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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