Intel Pentium G3260 vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Compare Intel Pentium G Series 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

1206 points

1259 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2612 points

12% slightly better gaming score

2315 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

863 points

966 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

828 points

927 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.34 points

17.73 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

995 points

1090 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

583 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

473 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

200% significantly higher clock speed

1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

53 W

6 W

783% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

100% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

899th of 1,089

879th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium G Series

Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4 LPDDR4x

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Pentium G3260 vs Pentium Silver N6000 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Silver N6000 is faster than the Pentium G3260. Despite this, the Pentium G3260 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium Silver N6000 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium G3260 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G3260. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium G3260 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N6000. The Pentium Silver N6000 outputs less heat than Pentium G3260 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. For instance, the Pentium G3260 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.