Intel Pentium Silver N6000 vs Intel Xeon E5-520

Compare Intel Pentium Silver Series 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 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

1676 points

33% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2315 points

2485 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

966 points

1418 points

46% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

927 points

1363 points

47% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.73 points

21.48 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1090 points

1430 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

473 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

362 points

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

2.26 GHz

105% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

6 W

1233% significantly lower TDP

80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

16 GiB

144 GiB

800% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

879th of 1,089

780th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Silver Series

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

2009 February

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 E5-520 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-520 is faster than the Pentium Silver N6000. 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 and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-520 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N6000. A Pentium Silver N6000 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-520 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Pentium Silver N6000 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.