Intel Pentium Silver N6000 vs AMD Phenom II X4 960T

Compare Intel Pentium Silver Series 4 core CPU vs AMD 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
1496 points
18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2315 points
2813 points
21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

966 points
1133 points
17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

927 points
1088 points
17% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1090 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
993 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

473 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
354 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.1 GHz
3 GHz
172% significantly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

879th of 1,089
809th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Silver Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4 LPDDR4x
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Pentium Silver N6000 vs Phenom II X4 960T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X4 960T is faster than the Pentium Silver N6000. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N6000 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 960T has a significantly higher clock speed compared to 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.

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