Intel Core i7-8500Y vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Core i7-8500Y vs Pentium Silver N6000 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Silver N6000 is faster than the Core i7-8500Y. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8500Y in all gaming tests too.

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 i7-8500Y that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-8500Y has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N6000. A Core i7-8500Y CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium Silver N6000 CPU because of its slightly 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 i7-8500Y has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.