Intel Core i7-4720HQ vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 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

1830 points
45% significantly better overall score
1259 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2931 points
26% slightly better gaming score
2315 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1511 points
56% significantly better multitasking score
966 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1452 points
56% significantly better heavy workload score
927 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.95 points
164% significantly higher Blender score
17.73 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3071 points
181% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1090 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1035 points
118% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
473 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.59 GHz
135% significantly higher clock speed
1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

47 W
6 W
683% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
100% significantly more pcie lanes
8

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

754th of 1,089
879th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February
2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR4 LPDDR4x

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i7-4720HQ vs Pentium Silver N6000 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Silver N6000 is faster than the Core i7-4720HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4720HQ in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-4720HQ has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-4720HQ has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N6000. The Pentium Silver N6000 outputs less heat than Core i7-4720HQ 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. Indeed, the Core i7-4720HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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