AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

FX-6300 vs Pentium Silver N6000 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-6300 beats the Pentium Silver N6000 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium Silver N6000 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Pentium Silver N6000 has slightly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-6300 that has 3 cores. Despite this, the FX-6300 has more threads than the Pentium Silver N6000. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-6300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N6000.

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 FX-6300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.