Intel Core i3-7100U vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Compare Intel 7th 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

960 points
1259 points
31% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1881 points
2315 points
23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

720 points
966 points
34% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

693 points
927 points
33% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.26 points
8% slightly higher Blender score
17.73 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1571 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1090 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

770 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
473 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

2.4 GHz
118% significantly higher clock speed
1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
6 W
150% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

12
49% significantly more pcie lanes
8

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

962nd of 1,089
879th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3
Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR4 LPDDR4x

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i3-7100U vs Pentium Silver N6000 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Silver N6000 beats the Core i3-7100U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7100U 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 i3-7100U. Indeed, the Pentium Silver N6000 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-7100U. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-7100U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N6000. The Pentium Silver N6000 outputs less heat than Core i3-7100U 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 i3-7100U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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