Intel Pentium Silver N6000 vs Intel Xeon W3520

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

1318 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2315 points

2412 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

966 points

1009 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

927 points

969 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.73 points

21.91 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1090 points

1438 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

473 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

416 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

2.66 GHz

141% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

6 W

2066% significantly lower TDP

130 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

24 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

879th of 1,089

865th 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 W3520 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Silver N6000 performs better than the Xeon W3520. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W3520 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 W3520 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N6000. A Pentium Silver N6000 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W3520 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.