Pentium Silver N6000 vs Athlon Gold 3150U

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Aggregate performance score

Athlon Gold 3150U
2020
2 cores / 4 threads, 15 Watt
2.59
+30.8%
Pentium Silver N6000
2021
4 cores / 4 threads, 6 Watt
1.98

Athlon Gold 3150U outperforms Pentium Silver N6000 by a substantial 31% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Athlon Gold 3150U and Pentium Silver N6000 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking16481851
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)no data
Architecture codenameDali (Zen)Jasper Lake (2021)
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)11 January 2021 (3 years ago)
Current price$446 no data

Detailed specifications

Athlon Gold 3150U 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 cores2 (Dual-core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads44
Base clock speed2.4 GHz1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed3.3 GHz3.3 GHz
L1 cache192 KBno data
L2 cache1 MB1.5 MB
L3 cache4 MB4 MB
Chip lithography14 nm10 nm
Maximum core temperature95 °C105 °C
Number of transistors4500 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on Athlon Gold 3150U 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 configurationno data1
SocketFP5FCBGA1338
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and Pentium Silver N6000. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsDDR4-2400 RAM, PCIe 3, MMX, 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+no data
AVX+no data
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Speed Shiftno data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data-
Thermal Monitoringno data+
GPIOno data+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-
Statusno dataLaunched

Security technologies

Athlon Gold 3150U and Pentium Silver N6000 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

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

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and Pentium Silver N6000 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+no data
VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and Pentium Silver N6000. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR4
Maximum memory size32 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 3Intel UHD Graphics
Quick Sync Videono data+
Graphics max frequencyno data850 MHz
Execution Unitsno data32

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Athlon Gold 3150U and Pentium Silver N6000 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data3
eDPno data+
DisplayPortno data+
HDMIno data+
MIPI-DSIno data+

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Athlon Gold 3150U 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 Athlon Gold 3150U and Pentium Silver N6000 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXno data12
OpenGLno data4.5

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon Gold 3150U 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.

Athlon Gold 3150U 2.59
+30.8%
Pentium Silver N6000 1.98

Athlon Gold 3150U outperforms Pentium Silver N6000 by 31% based on our aggregate 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%

Athlon Gold 3150U 4011
+31.1%
Pentium Silver N6000 3059

Athlon Gold 3150U outperforms Pentium Silver N6000 by 31% 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%

Athlon Gold 3150U 798
+65.9%
Pentium Silver N6000 481

Athlon Gold 3150U outperforms Pentium Silver N6000 by 66% 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%

Athlon Gold 3150U 1648
+48.7%
Pentium Silver N6000 1108

Athlon Gold 3150U outperforms Pentium Silver N6000 by 49% 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%

Athlon Gold 3150U 3639
Pentium Silver N6000 4132
+13.5%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U by 14% 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%

Athlon Gold 3150U 7566
Pentium Silver N6000 9643
+27.4%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U by 27% 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%

Athlon Gold 3150U 4189
+5.1%
Pentium Silver N6000 3985

Athlon Gold 3150U outperforms Pentium Silver N6000 by 5% 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%

Athlon Gold 3150U 40.13
Pentium Silver N6000 16.92
+137%

Athlon Gold 3150U outperforms Pentium Silver N6000 by 137% 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%

Athlon Gold 3150U 4
+11.1%
Pentium Silver N6000 4

Athlon Gold 3150U outperforms Pentium Silver N6000 by 11% 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%

Athlon Gold 3150U 352
+21%
Pentium Silver N6000 291

Athlon Gold 3150U outperforms Pentium Silver N6000 by 21% 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%

Athlon Gold 3150U 117
+2.9%
Pentium Silver N6000 114

Athlon Gold 3150U outperforms Pentium Silver N6000 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%

Athlon Gold 3150U 1.36
Pentium Silver N6000 1.41
+3.7%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U 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%

Athlon Gold 3150U 2.2
Pentium Silver N6000 2.8
+27.3%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U 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%

Athlon Gold 3150U 1631
+22.6%
Pentium Silver N6000 1330

Athlon Gold 3150U outperforms Pentium Silver N6000 by 23% in WinRAR 4.0.

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%

Athlon Gold 3150U 22
+22.1%
Pentium Silver N6000 18

Athlon Gold 3150U outperforms Pentium Silver N6000 by 22% in x264 encoding pass 2.

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%

Athlon Gold 3150U 107
+14.1%
Pentium Silver N6000 93

Athlon Gold 3150U outperforms Pentium Silver N6000 by 14% in x264 encoding pass 1.

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 2.59 1.98
Recency 7 January 2020 11 January 2021
Physical cores 2 4
Chip lithography 14 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 6 Watt

The Athlon Gold 3150U is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium Silver N6000 in performance tests.


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