Intel Core i5-6200U vs Intel Pentium N4200

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium N 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

1045 points
63% significantly better overall score
641 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2029 points
62% significantly better gaming score
1245 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

783 points
64% significantly better multitasking score
475 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

751 points
65% significantly better heavy workload score
454 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.78 points
150% significantly higher Blender score
8.30 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1333 points
102% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
658 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

558 points
114% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
260 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
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

15 W
6 W
150% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

12
100% significantly more pcie lanes
6

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory
8 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

935th of 1,089
1,048th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5
Pentium N Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR3-1866

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i5-6200U vs Pentium N4200 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-6200U beats the Pentium N4200 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium N4200 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Pentium N4200 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i5-6200U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-6200U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium N4200. The Pentium N4200 outputs less heat than Core i5-6200U 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 i5-6200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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