Intel Core i3-4150 vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Core i3-4150 vs Pentium Silver N6000 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Silver N6000 beats the Core i3-4150 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-4150 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium Silver N6000 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-4150 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4150 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium Silver N6000. The Pentium Silver N6000 outputs less heat than Core i3-4150 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Core i3-4150 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.