Intel Core i3-8145U vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Core i3-8145U vs Pentium Silver N6000 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Silver N6000 beats the Core i3-8145U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8145U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium Silver N6000 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-8145U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-8145U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N6000. The Pentium Silver N6000 outputs less heat than Core i3-8145U 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 i3-8145U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.