AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel Pentium Silver Series 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

4357 points
246% significantly better overall score
1259 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points
173% significantly better gaming score
2315 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points
286% significantly better multitasking score
966 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points
285% significantly better heavy workload score
927 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points
409% significantly higher Blender score
17.73 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

8565 points
348% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
1911 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4533 points
315% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1090 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points
174% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
473 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
200% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
90% significantly higher clock speed
1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
6 W
150% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

405th of 1,089
879th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4 LPDDR4x

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Pentium Silver N6000 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500U beats the Pentium Silver N6000 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N6000 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Pentium Silver N6000 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Silver N6000. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium Silver N6000. The Pentium Silver N6000 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5500U thanks to a 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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