Pentium Silver N6000 vs Celeron J4125

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Aggregated performance score

Celeron J4125
2019
4 cores / 4 threads
1.93
Pentium Silver N6000
2021
4 cores / 4 threads
2.01
+4.1%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms Celeron J4125 by 4% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

General info

Comparing Celeron J4125 and Pentium Silver N6000 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking18421810
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money1.55no data
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Architecture codenameGemini Lake Refresh (2019)Jasper Lake (2021)
Release date4 November 2019 (4 years old)11 January 2021 (3 years old)
Current price$550 no data

Value for money

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Technical specs

Celeron J4125 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads44
Base clock speed2 GHz1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed2.7 GHz3.3 GHz
L2 cache4 MB1.5 MB
L3 cache4 MB4 MB
Chip lithography14 nm10 nm
Maximum core temperature105 °C105 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on Celeron J4125 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
SocketFCBGA1090FCBGA1338
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron J4125 and Pentium Silver N6000. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI++
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shift-+
Turbo Boost Technology--
Hyper-Threading Technology--
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring++
Smart Response-no data
GPIO++
Turbo Boost Max 3.0--
StatusDiscontinuedLaunched

Security technologies

Celeron J4125 and Pentium Silver N6000 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
EDB+no data
Secure Key+no data
MPX+no data
Identity Protection++
SGXYes with Intel® ME-
OS Guard++
Anti-Theft-no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron J4125 and Pentium Silver N6000 are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron J4125 and Pentium Silver N6000. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4, DDR4DDR4, DDR4
Maximum memory size8 GB16 GB
Max memory channels22
ECC memory support--

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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Intel UHD Graphics 600Intel UHD Graphics
Max video memory8 GBno data
Quick Sync Video++
Graphics max frequency750 MHz850 MHz
Execution Units1232

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Celeron J4125 and Pentium Silver N6000 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported33
eDP++
DisplayPort++
HDMI++
MIPI-DSI++

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Celeron J4125 and Pentium Silver N6000 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support++
Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096x2160@30Hz4096x2160@60Hz
Max resolution over eDP4096x2160@60Hzno data
Max resolution over DisplayPort4096x2160@60Hz4096x2160@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Celeron J4125 and Pentium Silver N6000 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX1212
OpenGL4.44.5

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Celeron J4125 and Pentium Silver N6000.

PCIe version2.0no data
PCI Express lanes68
USB revision2.0/3.02.0/3.2
Total number of SATA ports2no data
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports22
Number of USB ports814
Integrated LAN--
UART++

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.

Celeron J4125 1.93
Pentium Silver N6000 2.01
+4.1%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms Celeron J4125 by 4% 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%

Celeron J4125 2962
Pentium Silver N6000 3072
+3.7%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms Celeron J4125 by 4% 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%

Celeron J4125 346
Pentium Silver N6000 482
+39.3%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms Celeron J4125 by 39% 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%

Celeron J4125 960
Pentium Silver N6000 1112
+15.8%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms Celeron J4125 by 16% 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%

Celeron J4125 2112
Pentium Silver N6000 4132
+95.6%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms Celeron J4125 by 96% 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%

Celeron J4125 7128
Pentium Silver N6000 9643
+35.3%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms Celeron J4125 by 35% 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%

Celeron J4125 3740
Pentium Silver N6000 3985
+6.6%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms Celeron J4125 by 7% 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%

Celeron J4125 17.37
Pentium Silver N6000 16.92
+2.7%

Celeron J4125 outperforms Pentium Silver N6000 by 3% 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%

Celeron J4125 3
Pentium Silver N6000 4
+17.3%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms Celeron J4125 by 17% 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%

Celeron J4125 243
Pentium Silver N6000 291
+19.8%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms Celeron J4125 by 20% 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%

Celeron J4125 75
Pentium Silver N6000 114
+50.9%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms Celeron J4125 by 51% 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%

Celeron J4125 0.85
Pentium Silver N6000 1.41
+65.9%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms Celeron J4125 by 66% 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%

Celeron J4125 1.8
Pentium Silver N6000 2.8
+55.6%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms Celeron J4125 by 56% 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%

Celeron J4125 1048
Pentium Silver N6000 1330
+26.9%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms Celeron J4125 by 27% 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%

Celeron J4125 61
Pentium Silver N6000 93
+52.2%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms Celeron J4125 by 52% 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%

Celeron J4125 13
Pentium Silver N6000 18
+41%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms Celeron J4125 by 41% in x264 encoding pass 2.

Gaming performance

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 1.93 2.01
Integrated graphics card 0.86
Recency 4 November 2019 11 January 2021
Chip lithography 14 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 6 Watt

We couldn't decide between Celeron J4125 and Pentium Silver N6000. The differences in performance seem too small.

Be aware that Celeron J4125 is a desktop processor while Pentium Silver N6000 is a notebook one.


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