Intel Pentium Silver N6000 vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Compare Intel Pentium Silver Series 4 core CPU vs AMD Athlon Mobile 2 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

1259 points
4% slightly better overall score
1200 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2315 points
2572 points
11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

966 points
11% slightly better multitasking score
864 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

927 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score
831 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.73 points
17% slightly higher Blender score
15.05 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1090 points
1350 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

473 points
778 points
64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.1 GHz
2.3 GHz
109% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

6 W
150% significantly lower TDP
15 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

879th of 1,089
902nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Silver Series
Athlon Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4 LPDDR4x
DDR4

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Pentium Silver N6000 vs Athlon Silver 3050U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Silver N6000 performs better than the Athlon Silver 3050U. Despite this, the Athlon Silver 3050U 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 Athlon Silver 3050U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon Silver 3050U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon Silver 3050U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N6000. A Pentium Silver N6000 CPU outputs less heat than a Athlon Silver 3050U CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.

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