Intel Core i5-5300U vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Core i5-5300U vs Pentium Silver N6000 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Silver N6000 performs better than the Core i5-5300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-5300U 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 i5-5300U. Indeed, the Pentium Silver N6000 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-5300U. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-5300U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium Silver N6000. The Pentium Silver N6000 outputs less heat than Core i5-5300U 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 i5-5300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.