Pentium Silver N5000 vs A10-9600P

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Aggregated performance score

A10-9600P
2016
4 cores / 4 threads
1.51

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A10-9600P by 5% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing A10-9600P and Pentium Silver N5000 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking20291993
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Bristol RidgeIntel Pentium Silver
Architecture codenameBristol Ridge (2016−2019)Gemini Lake (2019)
Release date1 June 2016 (7 years ago)11 December 2017 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$161
Current price$494 $358 (2.2x MSRP)

Detailed specifications

A10-9600P and Pentium Silver N5000 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 speed2.4 GHz1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed3.3 GHz2.7 GHz
L1 cacheno data224 KB
L2 cache2048 KB4 MB
L3 cacheno data4 MB
Chip lithography28 nm14 nm
Die size250 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature90 °C105 °C
Number of transistors3100 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on A10-9600P and Pentium Silver N5000 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 configurationno data1
SocketFP4FCBGA1090
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A10-9600P and Pentium Silver N5000. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsDual-Channel DDR3/DDR4-1866 Memory Controller, PCIe 3.0 x8Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI1+
FMAFMA4no data
FRTC1no data
FreeSync1no data
PowerTune-no data
DualGraphics1no data
TrueAudio-no data
PowerNow-no data
PowerGating-no data
Out-of-band client management-no data
VirusProtect-no data
RAID-no data
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Speed Shiftno data-
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data-
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoringno data+
Smart Responseno data-
GPIOno data+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-
Statusno dataDiscontinued

Security technologies

A10-9600P and Pentium Silver N5000 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

EDBno data+
Secure Keyno data+
MPXno data+
Identity Protectionno data+
SGXno dataYes with Intel® ME
OS Guardno data+
Anti-Theftno data-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A10-9600P and Pentium Silver N5000 are enumerated here.

AMD-V1no data
VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+
IOMMU 2.0-no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A10-9600P and Pentium Silver N5000. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3, DDR4-1866DDR4
Maximum memory sizeno data8 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidthno data38.397 GB/s
ECC memory supportno data-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon R5 GraphicsIntel UHD Graphics 605
iGPU core count6no data
Max video memoryno data8 GB
Quick Sync Videono data+
Enduro+no data
Switchable graphics1no data
UVD+no data
VCE+no data
Graphics max frequencyno data750 MHz
Execution Unitsno data18

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of A10-9600P and Pentium Silver N5000 integrated GPUs.

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

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by A10-9600P and Pentium Silver N5000 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution supportno data+

Graphics API support

APIs supported by A10-9600P and Pentium Silver N5000 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXDirectX® 1212
OpenGLno data4.4
Vulkan1no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by A10-9600P and Pentium Silver N5000.

PCIe version3.02.0
PCI Express lanes86
USB revisionno data2.0/3.0
Total number of SATA portsno data2
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Portsno data2
Number of USB portsno data8
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.

A10-9600P 1.51
Pentium Silver N5000 1.58
+4.6%

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A10-9600P by 5% based on our aggregated benchmark results.


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.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

A10-9600P 2333
Pentium Silver N5000 2442
+4.7%

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A10-9600P by 5% in Passmark.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

A10-9600P 456
+30.7%
Pentium Silver N5000 349

A10-9600P outperforms Pentium Silver N5000 by 31% in GeekBench 5 Single-Core.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

A10-9600P 1027
+18.3%
Pentium Silver N5000 868

A10-9600P outperforms Pentium Silver N5000 by 18% in GeekBench 5 Multi-Core.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 20%

A10-9600P 2447
+6.6%
Pentium Silver N5000 2295

A10-9600P outperforms Pentium Silver N5000 by 7% in Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

A10-9600P 6508
Pentium Silver N5000 6688
+2.8%

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A10-9600P by 3% in Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

A10-9600P 3287
Pentium Silver N5000 3320
+1%

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A10-9600P by 1% in 3DMark06 CPU.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 18%

A10-9600P 15.3
+10%
Pentium Silver N5000 16.83

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A10-9600P by 10% in wPrime 32.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

A10-9600P 3
Pentium Silver N5000 3
+7.7%

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A10-9600P by 8% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core.

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

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

Benchmark coverage: 15%

A10-9600P 216
Pentium Silver N5000 237
+9.5%

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A10-9600P by 9% in Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 15%

A10-9600P 76
Pentium Silver N5000 78
+2.6%

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A10-9600P by 3% in Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

A10-9600P 0.9
Pentium Silver N5000 0.94
+4.4%

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A10-9600P by 4% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

A10-9600P 1.5
Pentium Silver N5000 1.9
+26.7%

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A10-9600P by 27% in TrueCrypt AES.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

A10-9600P 1526
+22.6%
Pentium Silver N5000 1245

A10-9600P outperforms Pentium Silver N5000 by 23% in WinRAR 4.0.

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.  

Benchmark coverage: 13%

A10-9600P 85
+11.9%
Pentium Silver N5000 76

A10-9600P outperforms Pentium Silver N5000 by 12% in x264 encoding pass 1.

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.  

Benchmark coverage: 13%

A10-9600P 16
+6.1%
Pentium Silver N5000 15

A10-9600P outperforms Pentium Silver N5000 by 6% in x264 encoding pass 2.

Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core

Benchmark coverage: 5%

A10-9600P 2074
+16.7%
Pentium Silver N5000 1778

A10-9600P outperforms Pentium Silver N5000 by 17% in Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core.

Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core

Benchmark coverage: 5%

A10-9600P 5423
Pentium Silver N5000 5548
+2.3%

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A10-9600P by 2% in Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core.

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit multi-core

Benchmark coverage: 2%

A10-9600P 4711
Pentium Silver N5000 5488
+16.5%

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A10-9600P by 16% in Geekbench 4.0 64-bit multi-core.

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit single-core

Benchmark coverage: 2%

A10-9600P 2047
+0.1%
Pentium Silver N5000 2045

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.51 1.58
Integrated graphics card 1.17
Recency 1 June 2016 11 December 2017
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 6 Watt

Given the minimal performance differences, no clear winner can be declared between A10-9600P and Pentium Silver N5000.


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