Intel Core i7-6500U vs Intel Pentium Silver J5040

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 2 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

1306 points
1% slightly better overall score
1289 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2566 points
5% slightly better gaming score
2434 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

974 points
978 points
0.41% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

934 points
939 points
0.54% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.12 points
20% slightly higher Blender score
20.05 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

2.5 GHz
25% slightly higher clock speed
2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
10 W
49% 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

870th of 1,089
872nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7
Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2019 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

No
No

Core i7-6500U vs Pentium Silver J5040 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-6500U performs better than the Pentium Silver J5040. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver J5040 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Pentium Silver J5040 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6500U. Indeed, the Pentium Silver J5040 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-6500U. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-6500U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver J5040. The Pentium Silver J5040 outputs less heat than Core i7-6500U 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 i7-6500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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