Pentium Silver N6000 vs Ryzen 5 5500U

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Aggregate performance score

Ryzen 5 5500U
2021
6 cores / 12 threads, 15 Watt
8.19
+329%
Pentium Silver N6000
2021
4 cores / 4 threads, 6 Watt
1.91

Ryzen 5 5500U outperforms Pentium Silver N6000 by a whopping 329% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 5 5500U and Pentium Silver N6000 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking9291971
Place by popularity19not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Lucienne (Zen 2, Ryzen 5000)no data
Power efficiency31.0030.13
Architecture codenameLucienne-U (Zen 2) (2021)Jasper Lake (2021)
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)11 January 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 5 5500U 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 cores6 (Hexa-Core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads124
Base clock speed2.1 GHz1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed4 GHz3.3 GHz
Multiplier21no data
L1 cache384 KBno data
L2 cache3 MB1.5 MB
L3 cache8 MB (shared)4 MB
Chip lithography7 nm10 nm
Die size156 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature105 °C105 °C
Number of transistors9,800 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 5500U 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
SocketFP6FCBGA1338
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 5500U and Pentium Silver N6000. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SMEIntel® SSE4.2
AES-NI++
FMA+-
AVX+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Speed Shiftno data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data-
Thermal Monitoring-+
GPIOno data+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-

Security technologies

Ryzen 5 5500U and Pentium Silver N6000 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 5 5500U and Pentium Silver N6000 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 5 5500U and Pentium Silver N6000. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR4
Maximum memory size64 GB16 GB
Max memory channelsno data2

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 ( - 1800 MHz)Intel UHD Graphics
Quick Sync Video-+
Graphics max frequencyno data850 MHz
Execution Unitsno data32

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Ryzen 5 5500U and Pentium Silver N6000 integrated GPUs.

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

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Ryzen 5 5500U and Pentium Silver N6000 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

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

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Ryzen 5 5500U and Pentium Silver N6000 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXno data12
OpenGLno data4.5

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 5500U and Pentium Silver N6000.

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 5 5500U 8.19
+329%
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.

Ryzen 5 5500U 13010
+328%
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.

Ryzen 5 5500U 1287
+166%
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.

Ryzen 5 5500U 4528
+306%
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.

Ryzen 5 5500U 5313
+28.6%
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.

Ryzen 5 5500U 27437
+185%
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.

Ryzen 5 5500U 9185
+130%
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.

Ryzen 5 5500U 6.22
+172%
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.

Ryzen 5 5500U 11
+218%
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.

Ryzen 5 5500U 1247
+329%
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.

Ryzen 5 5500U 177
+55.7%
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.

Ryzen 5 5500U 1.99
+41.1%
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.

Ryzen 5 5500U 4.3
+53.6%
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.

Ryzen 5 5500U 3945
+197%
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.  

Ryzen 5 5500U 45
+146%
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.  

Ryzen 5 5500U 162
+73.8%
Pentium Silver N6000 93

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Ryzen 5 5500U 5439
+184%
Pentium Silver N6000 1915

Blender(-)

Ryzen 5 5500U 417
Pentium Silver N6000 1935
+365%

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Ryzen 5 5500U 1108
+52.4%
Pentium Silver N6000 727

7-Zip Single

Ryzen 5 5500U 4324
+30.8%
Pentium Silver N6000 3305

7-Zip

Ryzen 5 5500U 33768
+267%
Pentium Silver N6000 9212

WebXPRT 3

Ryzen 5 5500U 206
+41.1%
Pentium Silver N6000 146

CrossMark Overall

Ryzen 5 5500U 1049
+124%
Pentium Silver N6000 469

WebXPRT 4 Overall

Ryzen 5 5500U 156
+50%
Pentium Silver N6000 104

Blender v3.3 Classroom CPU(-)

Ryzen 5 5500U 749
Pentium Silver N6000 3786
+406%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 8.19 1.91
Integrated graphics card 7.47 5.58
Physical cores 6 4
Threads 12 4
Chip lithography 7 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 6 Watt

Ryzen 5 5500U has a 328.8% higher aggregate performance score, 33.9% faster integrated GPU, 50% more physical cores and 200% more threads, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

Pentium Silver N6000, on the other hand, has 150% lower power consumption.

The Ryzen 5 5500U is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium Silver N6000 in performance tests.


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