Intel Core i3-4170 vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Core i3-4170 vs Pentium Silver N6000 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Silver N6000 beats the Core i3-4170 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4170 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 i3-4170. Indeed, the Pentium Silver N6000 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-4170. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4170 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium Silver N6000. The Pentium Silver N6000 outputs less heat than Core i3-4170 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 i3-4170 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.