Intel Core i5-10500T vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 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

3986 points
216% significantly better overall score
1259 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5707 points
146% significantly better gaming score
2315 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3461 points
258% significantly better multitasking score
966 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3351 points
261% significantly better heavy workload score
927 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

80.54 points
354% significantly higher Blender score
17.73 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4686 points
329% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1090 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1285 points
171% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
473 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
200% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
109% 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
100% 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

128 GiB
700% significantly more supported memory
16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

437th of 1,089
879th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5
Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4 LPDDR4x

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i5-10500T vs Pentium Silver N6000 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10500T is faster than the Pentium Silver N6000. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N6000 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-10500T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Pentium Silver N6000 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Silver N6000. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-10500T has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium Silver N6000. The Pentium Silver N6000 outputs less heat than Core i5-10500T 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 i5-10500T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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