Intel Core i7-7600U vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Core i7-7600U vs Pentium Silver N6000 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Silver N6000 is faster than the Core i7-7600U. Despite this, the Core i7-7600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Pentium Silver N6000 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-7600U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-7600U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N6000. The Pentium Silver N6000 outputs less heat than Core i7-7600U 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 i7-7600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.