Intel Pentium Silver N6000 vs Intel Core i7-4712MQ

Compare Intel Pentium Silver Series 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 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

1259 points

1744 points

38% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2315 points

2886 points

24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

966 points

1409 points

45% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

927 points

1352 points

45% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.73 points

30.27 points

70% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1090 points

2892 points

165% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

473 points

948 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.1 GHz

2.30 GHz

108% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

6 W

516% significantly lower TDP

37 W

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

16 GiB

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

879th of 1,089

767th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Silver Series

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4 LPDDR4x

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Pentium Silver N6000 vs Core i7-4712MQ comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4712MQ beats the Pentium Silver N6000 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium Silver N6000 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-4712MQ has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4712MQ has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N6000. A Pentium Silver N6000 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-4712MQ 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.