Intel Core i3-4160 vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Core i3-4160 vs Pentium Silver N6000 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Silver N6000 performs better than the Core i3-4160. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4160 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 Core i3-4160. Indeed, the Pentium Silver N6000 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-4160. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4160 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N6000. The Pentium Silver N6000 outputs less heat than Core i3-4160 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 i3-4160 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.