Intel Core i3-8130U vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Core i3-8130U vs Pentium Silver N6000 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Silver N6000 performs better than the Core i3-8130U. Despite this, the Core i3-8130U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Pentium Silver N6000 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-8130U. Indeed, the Pentium Silver N6000 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-8130U. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-8130U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N6000. The Pentium Silver N6000 outputs less heat than Core i3-8130U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-8130U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.