Intel Pentium Silver N6000 vs Intel Xeon X3450

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

1719 points

36% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2315 points

2768 points

19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

966 points

1407 points

45% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

927 points

1350 points

45% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.73 points

39.82 points

124% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1090 points

1454 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

473 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

432 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

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

1483% significantly lower TDP

95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

100% 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

770th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Silver Series

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

2009 August

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 X3450 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Silver N6000 beats the Xeon X3450 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X3450 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon X3450 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon X3450 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N6000. A Pentium Silver N6000 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X3450 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.