Pentium Silver N6005 vs Ryzen 3 3300U

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Aggregate performance score

Ryzen 3 3300U
2019
4 cores / 4 threads, 15 Watt
3.58
+5.9%
Pentium Silver N6005
2021
4 cores / 4 threads, 10 Watt
3.38

Ryzen 3 3300U outperforms Pentium Silver N6005 by a small 6% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 3 3300U and Pentium Silver N6005 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking15101556
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Ryzen 3no data
Power efficiency22.5931.99
Architecture codenamePicasso (2019−2022)Jasper Lake (2021)
Release date6 January 2019 (5 years ago)11 January 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 3 3300U and Pentium Silver N6005 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)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads44
Base clock speed2.1 GHz2 GHz
Boost clock speed3.5 GHz3.3 GHz
Bus typePCIe 3.0no data
Multiplier21no data
L1 cache128K (per core)no data
L2 cache512K (per core)1.5 MB
L3 cache4 MB (shared)4 MB
Chip lithography12 nm10 nm
Die size246 mm2no data
Maximum core temperatureno data105 °C
Number of transistors4940 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 3 3300U and Pentium Silver N6005 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 configuration1 (Uniprocessor)1
SocketFP5FCBGA1338
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt10 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 3 3300U and Pentium Silver N6005. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsXFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMTIntel® SSE4.2
AES-NI++
AVX+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Speed Shiftno data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data-
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Smart Responseno data-
GPIOno data+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-

Security technologies

Ryzen 3 3300U and Pentium Silver N6005 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

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

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 3 3300U and Pentium Silver N6005 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-
VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 3 3300U and Pentium Silver N6005. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4 Dual-channelDDR4
Maximum memory size64 GB16 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/sno data
ECC memory support+-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000)Intel UHD Graphics
Quick Sync Video-+
Graphics max frequencyno data900 MHz
Execution Unitsno data32

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Ryzen 3 3300U and Pentium Silver N6005 integrated GPUs.

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

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Ryzen 3 3300U and Pentium Silver N6005 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

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

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Ryzen 3 3300U and Pentium Silver N6005 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXno data12
OpenGLno data4.5

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 3 3300U and Pentium Silver N6005.

PCIe version3.0no data
PCI Express lanes128
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.

Ryzen 3 3300U 3.58
+5.9%
Pentium Silver N6005 3.38

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.

Ryzen 3 3300U 5679
+5.8%
Pentium Silver N6005 5367

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.

Ryzen 3 3300U 4280
+7.8%
Pentium Silver N6005 3970

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.

Ryzen 3 3300U 12357
Pentium Silver N6005 12496
+1.1%

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.

Ryzen 3 3300U 4332
Pentium Silver N6005 5451
+25.8%

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.

Ryzen 3 3300U 11.94
+38.6%
Pentium Silver N6005 16.55

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Ryzen 3 3300U 471
+47.6%
Pentium Silver N6005 319

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.

Ryzen 3 3300U 134
+10.7%
Pentium Silver N6005 121

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.

Ryzen 3 3300U 2.7
Pentium Silver N6005 2.8
+1.9%

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.  

Ryzen 3 3300U 26
+4.1%
Pentium Silver N6005 25

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.  

Ryzen 3 3300U 132
+11.2%
Pentium Silver N6005 119

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.

Ryzen 3 3300U 2398
+43.2%
Pentium Silver N6005 1675

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Ryzen 3 3300U 2578
+54.1%
Pentium Silver N6005 1673

Blender(-)

Ryzen 3 3300U 1212
Pentium Silver N6005 1805
+48.9%

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Ryzen 3 3300U 824
+18.6%
Pentium Silver N6005 695

7-Zip Single

Ryzen 3 3300U 3340
Pentium Silver N6005 3465
+3.7%

7-Zip

Ryzen 3 3300U 12118
+21.6%
Pentium Silver N6005 9964

WebXPRT 3

Ryzen 3 3300U 154
+5.1%
Pentium Silver N6005 146

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 3.58 3.38
Integrated graphics card 3.04 5.58
Recency 6 January 2019 11 January 2021
Chip lithography 12 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 10 Watt

Ryzen 3 3300U has a 5.9% higher aggregate performance score.

Pentium Silver N6005, on the other hand, has 83.6% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 2 years, a 20% more advanced lithography process, and 50% lower power consumption.

Given the minimal performance differences, no clear winner can be declared between Ryzen 3 3300U and Pentium Silver N6005.


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