AMD A8-9600 vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Compare AMD A8-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

1435 points

13% slightly better overall score

1259 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2697 points

16% slightly better gaming score

2315 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1088 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

966 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1044 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

927 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.59 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

17.73 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1498 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1090 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

473 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

181% 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

828th 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

2017 July

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4 LPDDR4x

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A8-9600 vs Pentium Silver N6000 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-9600 is faster than the Pentium Silver N6000. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N6000 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A8-9600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N6000. The Pentium Silver N6000 outputs less heat than A8-9600 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. For instance, the A8-9600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.