Intel Core i3-6100T vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i3 2 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

1166 points
5% slightly better overall score
1107 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2253 points
4% slightly better gaming score
2151 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

881 points
7% slightly better multitasking score
823 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

849 points
8% slightly better heavy workload score
784 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.39 points
105% significantly higher Blender score
11.38 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2088 points
168% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
778 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1054 points
199% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
352 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
190% significantly higher clock speed
1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
6 W
483% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
166% significantly more pcie lanes
6

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
700% significantly more supported memory
8 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

907th of 1,089
922nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i3
Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866
DDR4-2400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Core i3-6100T vs Pentium Silver N5030 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-6100T is faster than the Pentium Silver N5030. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N5030 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium Silver N5030 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-6100T has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-6100T has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5030. The Pentium Silver N5030 outputs less heat than Core i3-6100T 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 i3-6100T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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