Pentium Silver N6000: specs and benchmarks

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Pentium Silver N6000
2021
4 cores / 4 threads, 6 Watt
1.91

Pentium Silver N6000 provides poor benchmark performance at 1.91% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

Intel started Pentium Silver N6000 sales 11 January 2021. This is a Jasper Lake architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 10 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3300 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCBGA1338 processor with a TDP of 6 Watt. It supports DDR4 memory.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1971
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentLaptop
Power efficiency30.13of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameJasper Lake (2021)
Release date11 January 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores4 (Quad-Core)
Threads4
Base clock speed1.1 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed3.3 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
L2 cache1.5 MBof 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache4 MBof 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography10 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Maximum core temperature105 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver N6000 compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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 configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketFCBGA1338
Power consumption (TDP)6 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

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

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2
AES-NI+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Speed Shift+
Turbo Boost Technology-
Hyper-Threading Technology-
Thermal Monitoring+
GPIO+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0-

Security technologies

Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-
Identity Protection+
SGX-
OS Guard+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

VT-d+
VT-x+
EPT+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Pentium Silver N6000's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4
Maximum memory size16 GBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9124)
Max memory channels2of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Pentium Silver N6000.

Integrated graphics cardIntel UHD Graphics
Quick Sync Video+
Graphics max frequency850 MHz
Execution Units32

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Silver N6000's integrated GPU.

Number of displays supported3
eDP+
DisplayPort+
HDMI+
MIPI-DSI+

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium Silver N6000's integrated GPU, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support+
Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096x2160@60Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPort4096x2160@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium Silver N6000's integrated GPU, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12
OpenGL4.5

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCI Express lanes8of 128 (EPYC 7551P)
USB revision2.0/3.2
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports2
Number of USB ports14
Integrated LAN-
UART+

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Pentium Silver N6000. Overall benchmark performance 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Silver N6000 3985

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 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 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 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 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 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.

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 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 Silver N6000 93

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Pentium Silver N6000 1915

Blender(-)

Pentium Silver N6000 1935

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Pentium Silver N6000 727

7-Zip Single

Pentium Silver N6000 3305

7-Zip

Pentium Silver N6000 9212

WebXPRT 3

Pentium Silver N6000 146

CrossMark Overall

Pentium Silver N6000 469

WebXPRT 4 Overall

Pentium Silver N6000 104

Blender v3.3 Classroom CPU(-)

Pentium Silver N6000 3786

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Pentium Silver N6000's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook CPUs.


Pentium Silver N6000 100

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Pentium Silver N6000 is Ryzen Embedded R1305G, which is faster by 1% and higher by 4 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Pentium Silver N6000:

A10-5757M 101.57
Pentium Silver N6000 100
FX-8800P 93.72

Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Pentium Silver N6000, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Pentium Silver N6000 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 4147 configurations using Pentium Silver N6000 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
1.2% (50/4147)
RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 4080
0.02% (1/4147)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.3% (12/4147)
RX 6950 XT Radeon RX 6950 XT
0.05% (2/4147)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.3% (13/4147)
RX 6900 XT Radeon RX 6900 XT
0.05% (2/4147)
RTX 3090 GeForce RTX 3090
0.02% (1/4147)
RX 6800 XT Radeon RX 6800 XT
0.02% (1/4147)
RTX 4060 Ti GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
0.02% (1/4147)

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