Intel Core i7-6500U vs Intel Pentium Silver N5000

Core i7-6500U vs Pentium Silver N5000 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-6500U performs better than the Pentium Silver N5000. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N5000 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium Silver N5000 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-6500U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-6500U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5000. The Pentium Silver N5000 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.

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 i7-6500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.