Intel Core i5-6300HQ vs Intel Pentium Silver N5000

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 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

1438 points

58% significantly better overall score

905 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2667 points

55% significantly better gaming score

1718 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1096 points

60% significantly better multitasking score

682 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1053 points

61% significantly better heavy workload score

652 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.90 points

310% significantly higher Blender score

9.48 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2685 points

208% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

870 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

970 points

174% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

354 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2777 points

222% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

860 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1025 points

197% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

345 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

2.3 GHz

109% significantly higher clock speed

1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

6 W

650% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

166% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

700% significantly more supported memory

8 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

826th of 1,089

982nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR4-2400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6300HQ vs Pentium Silver N5000 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6300HQ is faster than the Pentium Silver N5000. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N5000 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-6300HQ has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium Silver N5000. The Pentium Silver N5000 outputs less heat than Core i5-6300HQ 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 i5-6300HQ has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.