Pentium Silver N6000 vs Pentium G5600

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Primary details

Comparing Pentium G5600 and Pentium Silver N6000 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated1955
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Power efficiencyno data30.13
Architecture codenameCoffee Lake (2017−2019)Jasper Lake (2021)
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)11 January 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium G5600 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 cores2 (Dual-core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threadsno data4
Base clock speedno data1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed3.9 GHz3.3 GHz
L1 cache64 KB (per core)no data
L2 cache256 KB (per core)1.5 MB
L3 cache6144 KB (shared)4 MB
Chip lithography14 nm10 nm
Maximum core temperatureno data105 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)72 °Cno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Pentium G5600 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
Socket1151FCBGA1338
Power consumption (TDP)51 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium G5600 and Pentium Silver N6000. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE4.2
AES-NI++
AVX+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shiftno data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data-
TSX+-
Thermal Monitoring-+
GPIOno data+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-

Security technologies

Pentium G5600 and Pentium Silver N6000 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+-
Identity Protection-+
SGXno data-
OS Guardno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium G5600 and Pentium Silver N6000 are enumerated here.

VT-d++
VT-x++
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium G5600 and Pentium Silver N6000. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR4
Maximum memory sizeno data16 GB
Max memory channelsno data2

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataIntel UHD Graphics
Quick Sync Video-+
Graphics max frequencyno data850 MHz
Execution Unitsno data32

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium G5600 and Pentium Silver N6000 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data3
eDPno data+
DisplayPort-+
HDMI-+
MIPI-DSIno data+

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium G5600 and Pentium Silver N6000 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution supportno data+
Max resolution over HDMI 1.4no data4096x2160@60Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPortno data4096x2160@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium G5600 and Pentium Silver N6000 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXno data12
OpenGLno data4.5

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium G5600 and Pentium Silver N6000.

PCI Express lanesno data8
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.



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.

Pentium G5600 821
+69.3%
Pentium Silver N6000 485

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.

Pentium G5600 1675
+50%
Pentium Silver N6000 1117

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 2 4
Chip lithography 14 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 51 Watt 6 Watt

Pentium Silver N6000 has 100% more physical cores, a 40% more advanced lithography process, and 750% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Pentium G5600 and Pentium Silver N6000. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Pentium G5600 is a desktop processor while Pentium Silver N6000 is a notebook one.


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