Intel Core i5-2500 vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Compare Intel Core 4 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

1975 points

56% significantly better overall score

1259 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3663 points

58% significantly better gaming score

2315 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1502 points

55% significantly better multitasking score

966 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1441 points

55% significantly better heavy workload score

927 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.26 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

17.73 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1692 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1090 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

592 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

473 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

200% significantly higher clock speed

1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

6 W

1483% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

100% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

725th of 1,089

879th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4 LPDDR4x

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-2500 vs Pentium Silver N6000 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-2500 performs better than the Pentium Silver N6000. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N6000 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-2500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N6000. The Pentium Silver N6000 outputs less heat than Core i5-2500 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. For instance, the Core i5-2500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.