Intel Core i3-4000M vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Core i3-4000M vs Pentium Silver N6000 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Silver N6000 is faster than the Core i3-4000M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4000M in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Pentium Silver N6000 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-4000M that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4000M has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium Silver N6000. The Pentium Silver N6000 outputs less heat than Core i3-4000M 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. Indeed, the Core i3-4000M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.