Pentium Gold 6500Y vs Pentium Silver N6000

Place in the ranking	1928	1938
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Architecture codename	Jasper Lake (2021)	Amber Lake-Y (2018−2021)
Release date	11 January 2021 (3 years ago)	1 March 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium Silver N6000 and Pentium Gold 6500Y 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 cores	4 (Quad-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	4	4
Base clock speed	1.1 GHz	1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.3 GHz	3.4 GHz
Bus rate	no data	4 GT/s
L1 cache	no data	128 KB
L2 cache	1.5 MB	512 KB
L3 cache	4 MB	4 MB
Chip lithography	10 nm	14 nm
Maximum core temperature	105 °C	100 °C
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	+

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver N6000 and Pentium Gold 6500Y 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 configuration	1	1
Socket	FCBGA1338	BGA1515
Power consumption (TDP)	6 Watt	5 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and Pentium Gold 6500Y. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	Intel® SSE4.2	Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2
AES-NI	+	+
FMA	-	+
AVX	-	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	+
Speed Shift	+	+
Turbo Boost Technology	-	2.0
Hyper-Threading Technology	-	+
Idle States	no data	+
Thermal Monitoring	+	+
Flex Memory Access	no data	+
GPIO	+	no data
Turbo Boost Max 3.0	-	no data
Status	Launched	Discontinued

Security technologies

Pentium Silver N6000 and Pentium Gold 6500Y technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	-	-
EDB	no data	+
Secure Key	no data	+
MPX	-	+
Identity Protection	+	+
SGX	-	no data
OS Guard	+	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and Pentium Gold 6500Y are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and Pentium Gold 6500Y. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4	DDR3
Maximum memory size	16 GB	16 GB
Max memory channels	2	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	no data	33.3 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card Compare	Intel UHD Graphics	Intel UHD Graphics 615
Max video memory	no data	16 GB
Quick Sync Video	+	+
Clear Video	no data	+
Clear Video HD	no data	+
Graphics max frequency	850 MHz	900 MHz
Execution Units	32	23

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Silver N6000 and Pentium Gold 6500Y integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported	3	3
eDP	+	+
DisplayPort	+	+
HDMI	+	+
DVI	no data	+
MIPI-DSI	+	no data

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and Pentium Gold 6500Y integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support	+	+
Max resolution over HDMI 1.4	4096x2160@60Hz	4096x2304@24Hz
Max resolution over eDP	no data	3840x2160@60Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPort	4096x2160@60Hz	3840x2160@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and Pentium Gold 6500Y integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX	12	12
OpenGL	4.5	4.5

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and Pentium Gold 6500Y.

PCIe version	no data	3.0
PCI Express lanes	8	10
USB revision	2.0/3.2	no data
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports	2	no data
Number of USB ports	14	no data
Integrated LAN	-	no data
UART	+	no 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 Silver N6000 2.00
+1.5%

Pentium Gold 6500Y 1.97

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 3059
+1.4%

Pentium Gold 6500Y 3016

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	2.00	1.97
Integrated graphics card	5.58	1.98
Recency	11 January 2021	1 March 2021
Physical cores	4	2
Chip lithography	10 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	6 Watt	5 Watt

Pentium Silver N6000 has a 1.5% higher aggregate performance score, 181.8% faster integrated GPU, 100% more physical cores, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

Pentium Gold 6500Y, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 month, and 20% lower power consumption.

Given the minimal performance differences, no clear winner can be declared between Pentium Silver N6000 and Pentium Gold 6500Y.

Should you still have questions on choice between Pentium Silver N6000 and Pentium Gold 6500Y, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.