Xeon Platinum 8460Y vs Pentium Silver N6000

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Primary details

Comparing Pentium Silver N6000 and Xeon Platinum 8460Y processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking1971not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopServer
Power efficiency30.11no data
Architecture codenameJasper Lake (2021)no data
Release date11 January 2021 (3 years ago)1 January 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium Silver N6000 and Xeon Platinum 8460Y 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)40 (Tetraconta-Core)
Threads480
Base clock speed1.1 GHz2 GHz
Boost clock speed3.3 GHz3.7 GHz
L2 cache1.5 MBno data
L3 cache4 MB105 MB
Chip lithography10 nmIntel 7 nm
Maximum core temperature105 °C76 °C
64 bit support+-
Windows 11 compatibility+no data

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver N6000 and Xeon Platinum 8460Y 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 configuration1no data
SocketFCBGA1338FCLGA4677
Power consumption (TDP)6 Watt300 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and Xeon Platinum 8460Y. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2Intel® AMX, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512
AES-NI++
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Speed Shift++
Turbo Boost Technology-2.0
Hyper-Threading Technology-+
TSX-+
Thermal Monitoring+-
GPIO+no data
Turbo Boost Max 3.0-no data
Deep Learning Boost-+

Security technologies

Pentium Silver N6000 and Xeon Platinum 8460Y technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-+
EDBno data+
Identity Protection+-
SGX-Yes with Intel® SPS
OS Guard++

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and Xeon Platinum 8460Y are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and Xeon Platinum 8460Y. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR5-4800, DDR5-4400
Maximum memory size16 GB4 TB
Max memory channels28
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardIntel UHD Graphicsno data
Quick Sync Video+-
Graphics max frequency850 MHzno data
Execution Units32no data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Silver N6000 and Xeon Platinum 8460Y integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported3no data
eDP+no data
DisplayPort+-
HDMI+-
MIPI-DSI+no data

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and Xeon Platinum 8460Y integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support+no data
Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096x2160@60Hzno data
Max resolution over DisplayPort4096x2160@60Hzno data

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and Xeon Platinum 8460Y integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12no data
OpenGL4.5no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and Xeon Platinum 8460Y.

PCIe versionno data5.0
PCI Express lanes880
USB revision2.0/3.2no data
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports2no data
Number of USB ports14no data
Integrated LAN-no data
UART+no data

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 January 2021 1 January 2023
Physical cores 4 40
Threads 4 80
Power consumption (TDP) 6 Watt 300 Watt

Pentium Silver N6000 has 4900% lower power consumption.

Xeon Platinum 8460Y, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and 900% more physical cores and 1900% more threads.

We couldn't decide between Pentium Silver N6000 and Xeon Platinum 8460Y. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Pentium Silver N6000 is a notebook processor while Xeon Platinum 8460Y is a server/workstation one.


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