Intel Core i7-4558U vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Core i7-4558U vs Pentium Silver N6000 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Silver N6000 performs better than the Core i7-4558U. Despite this, the Core i7-4558U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium Silver N6000 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-4558U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4558U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N6000. The Pentium Silver N6000 outputs less heat than Core i7-4558U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-4558U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.