Intel Pentium Silver N6000 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220

Compare Intel Pentium Silver Series 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 Family 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

1881 points

49% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2315 points

3441 points

48% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

966 points

1439 points

48% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

927 points

1379 points

48% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.73 points

27.68 points

56% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1090 points

1577 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

473 points

532 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) 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

3.1 GHz

181% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

6 W

1233% significantly lower TDP

80 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% 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

746th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Silver Series

Xeon E3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

2011 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4 LPDDR4x

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Pentium Silver N6000 vs Xeon E3-1220 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1220 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1220 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N6000. A Pentium Silver N6000 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1220 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.