Intel Core i5-8259U vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Core i5-8259U vs Pentium Silver N6000 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8259U 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-8259U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-8259U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N6000. The Pentium Silver N6000 outputs less heat than Core i5-8259U 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 i5-8259U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.