Pentium Silver N6000 vs Pentium Gold 7505

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium Gold 7505
2020
2 cores / 4 threads, 15 Watt
3.27
+71.2%
Pentium Silver N6000
2021
4 cores / 4 threads, 6 Watt
1.91

Pentium Gold 7505 outperforms Pentium Silver N6000 by an impressive 71% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Pentium Gold 7505 and Pentium Silver N6000 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking15961971
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Tiger Lakeno data
Power efficiency20.6330.13
Architecture codenameTiger Lake-U (2020)Jasper Lake (2021)
Release date17 October 2020 (4 years ago)11 January 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium Gold 7505 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)
Threads44
Base clock speed2 GHz1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed3.5 GHz3.3 GHz
Bus rate4 GT/sno data
L1 cache160 KBno data
L2 cache2.5 MB1.5 MB
L3 cache4 MB4 MB
Chip lithography10 nm SuperFin10 nm
Maximum core temperature100 °C105 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Gold 7505 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
SocketFCBGA1449FCBGA1338
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Gold 7505 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++
FMA+-
AVX+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shift++
Turbo Boost Technology2.0-
Hyper-Threading Technology+-
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring++
GPIOno data+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-
Deep Learning Boost+-

Security technologies

Pentium Gold 7505 and Pentium Silver N6000 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT--
Identity Protection-+
SGX--
OS Guard++

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Gold 7505 and Pentium Silver N6000 are enumerated here.

VT-d++
VT-x++
EPT++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Gold 7505 and Pentium Silver N6000. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR4
Maximum memory size64 GB16 GB
Max memory channels22

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardIntel UHD Graphics for 11th Gen Intel ProcessorsIntel UHD Graphics
Quick Sync Video++
Clear Video HD+no data
Graphics max frequency1.25 GHz850 MHz
Execution Units4832

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Gold 7505 and Pentium Silver N6000 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported43
eDPno data+
DisplayPort-+
HDMI-+
MIPI-DSIno data+

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium Gold 7505 and Pentium Silver N6000 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution supportno data+
Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096x2304@60Hz4096x2160@60Hz
Max resolution over eDP4096x2304@60Hzno data
Max resolution over DisplayPort7680x4320@60Hz4096x2160@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium Gold 7505 and Pentium Silver N6000 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12.112
OpenGL4.64.5

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Gold 7505 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.


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.

Pentium Gold 7505 3.27
+71.2%
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.

Pentium Gold 7505 5194
+71%
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.

Pentium Gold 7505 1357
+180%
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.

Pentium Gold 7505 2614
+134%
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.

Pentium Gold 7505 6773
+63.9%
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.

Pentium Gold 7505 14093
+46.2%
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.

Pentium Gold 7505 4890
+22.7%
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.

Pentium Gold 7505 14.48
+16.9%
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.

Pentium Gold 7505 4
+24.8%
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.

Pentium Gold 7505 400
+37.5%
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.

Pentium Gold 7505 165
+45.2%
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.

Pentium Gold 7505 1.93
+36.9%
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.

Pentium Gold 7505 2.4
Pentium Silver N6000 2.8
+16.7%

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.

Pentium Gold 7505 2522
+89.6%
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.  

Pentium Gold 7505 25
+35.3%
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.  

Pentium Gold 7505 131
+40.4%
Pentium Silver N6000 93

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Pentium Gold 7505 2326
+21.5%
Pentium Silver N6000 1915

Blender(-)

Pentium Gold 7505 1150
Pentium Silver N6000 1935
+68.3%

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Pentium Gold 7505 1129
+55.3%
Pentium Silver N6000 727

7-Zip Single

Pentium Gold 7505 4062
+22.9%
Pentium Silver N6000 3305

7-Zip

Pentium Gold 7505 10756
+16.8%
Pentium Silver N6000 9212

WebXPRT 3

Pentium Gold 7505 184
+26.3%
Pentium Silver N6000 146

CrossMark Overall

Pentium Gold 7505 878
+87.1%
Pentium Silver N6000 469

WebXPRT 4 Overall

Pentium Gold 7505 143
+37%
Pentium Silver N6000 104

Blender v3.3 Classroom CPU(-)

Pentium Gold 7505 2130
Pentium Silver N6000 3786
+77.8%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 3.27 1.91
Recency 17 October 2020 11 January 2021
Physical cores 2 4
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 6 Watt

Pentium Gold 7505 has a 71.2% higher aggregate performance score.

Pentium Silver N6000, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 months, 100% more physical cores, and 150% lower power consumption.

The Pentium Gold 7505 is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium Silver N6000 in performance tests.


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