AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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

7869 points

525% significantly better overall score

1259 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9478 points

309% significantly better gaming score

2315 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7328 points

658% significantly better multitasking score

966 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7169 points

673% significantly better heavy workload score

927 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.11 points

1101% significantly higher Blender score

17.73 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

15711 points

722% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

1911 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10211 points

836% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1090 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2193 points

363% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

473 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

245% significantly higher clock speed

1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

6 W

1650% significantly lower TDP

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

128 GiB

700% significantly more supported memory

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

151st of 1,089

879th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4 LPDDR4x

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Pentium Silver N6000 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5800X performs better than the Pentium Silver N6000. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N6000 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Pentium Silver N6000 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Silver N6000. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N6000. The Pentium Silver N6000 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800X 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 7 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.