Intel Pentium Silver N6000 vs AMD Athlon II X3 450

Pentium Silver N6000 vs Athlon II X3 450 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Silver N6000 beats the Athlon II X3 450 in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon II X3 450 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Pentium Silver N6000 has slightly more cores than the Athlon II X3 450. Indeed, the Pentium Silver N6000 has 4 cores compared to 3 cores found in the Athlon II X3 450. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X3 450. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X3 450 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium Silver N6000.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Pentium Silver N6000 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.