Intel Pentium Silver N6000 vs AMD Athlon X4 870K

Pentium Silver N6000 vs Athlon X4 870K comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Silver N6000 performs better than the Athlon X4 870K. Despite this, the Athlon X4 870K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Pentium Silver N6000 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Athlon X4 870K that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon X4 870K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N6000. A Pentium Silver N6000 CPU outputs less heat than a Athlon X4 870K CPU because of its significantly 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. For instance, the Pentium Silver N6000 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.