Pentium Silver N6000 vs i7-4870HQ

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Aggregate performance score

Core i7-4870HQ
2014
4 cores / 8 threads, 47 Watt
3.97
+108%
Pentium Silver N6000
2021
4 cores / 4 threads, 6 Watt
1.91

Core i7-4870HQ outperforms Pentium Silver N6000 by a whopping 108% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Core i7-4870HQ and Pentium Silver N6000 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking14351971
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Core i7no data
Power efficiency7.9930.13
Architecture codenameCrystalwell (2013−2014)Jasper Lake (2021)
Release date20 July 2014 (10 years ago)11 January 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$434no data

Detailed specifications

Core i7-4870HQ and Pentium Silver N6000 basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores4 (Quad-Core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads84
Base clock speed2.5 GHz1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed3.7 GHz3.3 GHz
Bus typeDMI 2.0no data
Bus rate5 GT/sno data
Multiplier25no data
L1 cache64K (per core)no data
L2 cache1 MB1.5 MB
L3 cache6 MB4 MB
Chip lithography22 nm10 nm
Die size264 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature100 °C105 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)100 °Cno data
Number of transistors1,400 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Core i7-4870HQ and Pentium Silver N6000 compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration11
SocketFCBGA1364FCBGA1338
Power consumption (TDP)47 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core i7-4870HQ and Pentium Silver N6000. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI++
AVX+-
vPro+no data
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shiftno data+
Turbo Boost Technology2.0-
Hyper-Threading Technology+-
TSX+-
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring++
GPIOno data+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-
FDI+no data

Security technologies

Core i7-4870HQ and Pentium Silver N6000 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+-
EDB+no data
Secure Key+no data
Identity Protection++
SGXno data-
OS Guardno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core i7-4870HQ and Pentium Silver N6000 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-
VT-d++
VT-x++
EPT++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Core i7-4870HQ and Pentium Silver N6000. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR4
Maximum memory size32 GB16 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sno data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
Compare
Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200Intel UHD Graphics
Max video memory2 GBno data
Quick Sync Video++
Clear Video HD+no data
Graphics max frequency1.2 GHz850 MHz
Execution Unitsno data32
InTru 3D+no data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Core i7-4870HQ and Pentium Silver N6000 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported33
eDP++
DisplayPort++
HDMI++
VGA+no data
MIPI-DSIno data+

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Core i7-4870HQ and Pentium Silver N6000 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution supportno data+
Max resolution over HDMI 1.42560x1600@60Hz4096x2160@60Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPort3840x2160@60Hz4096x2160@60Hz
Max resolution over VGA1920x1200@60Hzno data

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Core i7-4870HQ and Pentium Silver N6000 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX11.2/1212
OpenGL4.34.5

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Core i7-4870HQ and Pentium Silver N6000.

PCIe version3no data
PCI Express lanes168
USB revisionno data2.0/3.2
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Portsno data2
Number of USB portsno data14
Integrated LANno data-
UARTno data+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

i7-4870HQ 3.97
+108%
Pentium Silver N6000 1.91

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

i7-4870HQ 6303
+108%
Pentium Silver N6000 3037

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

i7-4870HQ 1145
+137%
Pentium Silver N6000 484

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

i7-4870HQ 3725
+234%
Pentium Silver N6000 1116

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

i7-4870HQ 5300
+28.3%
Pentium Silver N6000 4132

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

i7-4870HQ 19079
+97.9%
Pentium Silver N6000 9643

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

i7-4870HQ 6622
+66.2%
Pentium Silver N6000 3985

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

i7-4870HQ 10.56
+60.2%
Pentium Silver N6000 16.92

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

i7-4870HQ 7
+89.4%
Pentium Silver N6000 4

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

i7-4870HQ 621
+113%
Pentium Silver N6000 291

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

i7-4870HQ 143
+25.8%
Pentium Silver N6000 114

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

i7-4870HQ 1.61
+14.2%
Pentium Silver N6000 1.41

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

i7-4870HQ 4.2
+50%
Pentium Silver N6000 2.8

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

i7-4870HQ 7031
+429%
Pentium Silver N6000 1330

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

i7-4870HQ 40
+115%
Pentium Silver N6000 18

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

i7-4870HQ 170
+82%
Pentium Silver N6000 93

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 3.97 1.91
Integrated graphics card 3.07 5.58
Recency 20 July 2014 11 January 2021
Threads 8 4
Chip lithography 22 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 47 Watt 6 Watt

i7-4870HQ has a 107.9% higher aggregate performance score, and 100% more threads.

Pentium Silver N6000, on the other hand, has 81.8% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 6 years, a 120% more advanced lithography process, and 683.3% lower power consumption.

The Core i7-4870HQ is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium Silver N6000 in performance tests.


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