Intel Pentium Silver N6000 vs Intel N97

Compare Intel Pentium Silver Series 4 core CPU vs Intel 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

1707 points

35% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2315 points

3251 points

40% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

966 points

1290 points

33% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

927 points

1238 points

33% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.73 points

33.82 points

90% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.1 GHz

2 GHz

81% significantly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

879th of 1,089

773rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4 LPDDR4x

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Pentium Silver N6000 vs N97 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Silver N6000 beats the N97 in overall performance. Despite this, the N97 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the N97 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium Silver N6000.

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.