Pentium Silver N6000 vs FX-7500

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Aggregated performance score

FX-7500
2014
4 cores / 4 threads
2.07
+4.5%

FX-7500 outperforms Pentium Silver N6000 by 5% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing FX-7500 and Pentium Silver N6000 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking17871828
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Kaverino data
Architecture codenameKaveri (2014−2015)Jasper Lake (2021)
Release date4 June 2014 (9 years ago)11 January 2021 (3 years ago)
Current price$267 no data

Detailed specifications

FX-7500 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 speed2.1 GHz1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed3.3 GHz3.3 GHz
L2 cache4096 KB1.5 MB
L3 cacheno data4 MB
Chip lithography28 nm10 nm
Die size245 mm2no data
Maximum core temperatureno data105 °C
Number of transistors2410 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on FX-7500 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
SocketFP3FCBGA1338
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by FX-7500 and Pentium Silver N6000. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions86x SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2, 4A),-64, AES, AVX, FMA, DDR3-1600 ControllerIntel® SSE4.2
AES-NI++
FMA+no data
AVX+no data
FRTC1no data
PowerTune-no data
TrueAudio+no data
PowerNow+no data
PowerGating+no data
Out-of-band client management+no data
VirusProtect+no data
HSA1no 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

FX-7500 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 FX-7500 and Pentium Silver N6000 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 FX-7500 and Pentium Silver N6000. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3-1600DDR4
Maximum memory sizeno data16 GB
Max memory channels22
ECC memory supportno data-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon R7 GraphicsIntel UHD Graphics
iGPU core count6no data
Quick Sync Videono data+
Enduro+no data
Switchable graphics1no data
UVD+no data
VCE+no data
Graphics max frequencyno data850 MHz
Execution Unitsno data32

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of FX-7500 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 FX-7500 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 FX-7500 and Pentium Silver N6000 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXDirectX® 1212
OpenGLno data4.5
Vulkan1no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by FX-7500 and Pentium Silver N6000.

PCIe version3.0no data
PCI Express lanesno data8
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.

FX-7500 2.07
+4.5%
Pentium Silver N6000 1.98

FX-7500 outperforms Pentium Silver N6000 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%

FX-7500 3209
+4.9%
Pentium Silver N6000 3060

FX-7500 outperforms Pentium Silver N6000 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%

FX-7500 312
Pentium Silver N6000 481
+54.2%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms FX-7500 by 54% 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%

FX-7500 700
Pentium Silver N6000 1110
+58.6%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms FX-7500 by 59% 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%

FX-7500 2060
Pentium Silver N6000 4132
+101%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms FX-7500 by 101% 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%

FX-7500 5482
Pentium Silver N6000 9643
+75.9%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms FX-7500 by 76% 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%

FX-7500 2771
Pentium Silver N6000 3985
+43.8%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms FX-7500 by 44% 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%

FX-7500 23.32
Pentium Silver N6000 16.92
+37.8%

FX-7500 outperforms Pentium Silver N6000 by 38% 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%

FX-7500 2
Pentium Silver N6000 4
+109%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms FX-7500 by 109% 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%

FX-7500 153
Pentium Silver N6000 291
+90.2%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms FX-7500 by 90% 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%

FX-7500 55
Pentium Silver N6000 114
+107%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms FX-7500 by 107% 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%

FX-7500 0.65
Pentium Silver N6000 1.41
+117%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms FX-7500 by 117% 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%

FX-7500 1.1
Pentium Silver N6000 2.8
+155%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms FX-7500 by 155% 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%

FX-7500 1479
+11.2%
Pentium Silver N6000 1330

FX-7500 outperforms Pentium Silver N6000 by 11% 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%

FX-7500 69
Pentium Silver N6000 93
+36.4%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms FX-7500 by 36% 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%

FX-7500 14
Pentium Silver N6000 18
+32.4%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms FX-7500 by 32% in x264 encoding pass 2.

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 2.07 1.98
Recency 4 June 2014 11 January 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 6 Watt

Given the minimal performance differences, no clear winner can be declared between FX-7500 and Pentium Silver N6000.


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