A6-9225 vs Pentium Silver N5000

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Aggregated performance score

Pentium Silver N5000
2017
4 cores / 4 threads
1.58
+83.7%

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A6-9225 by 84% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Pentium Silver N5000 and A6-9225 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking19932440
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Pentium SilverAMD Bristol Ridge
Architecture codenameGemini Lake (2019)Stoney Ridge (2016−2019)
Release date11 December 2017 (6 years ago)1 June 2018 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$161no data
Current price$358 (2.2x MSRP)$451

Detailed specifications

Pentium Silver N5000 and A6-9225 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)2 (Dual-core)
Threads42
Base clock speed1.1 GHz2.6 GHz
Boost clock speed2.7 GHz3.1 GHz
L1 cache224 KB160 KB
L2 cache4 MB1 MB
L3 cache4 MBno data
Chip lithography14 nm28 nm
Die sizeno data124.5 mm2
Maximum core temperature105 °C90 °C
Number of transistorsno data1200 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility+-
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver N5000 and A6-9225 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 configuration1no data
SocketFCBGA1090BGA
Power consumption (TDP)6 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and A6-9225. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2DDR4-2133 RAM (1 channel), PCIe 3, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, TBM, FMA4, XOP, SMEP, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND
AES-NI++
FMAno data+
AVXno data+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Speed Shift-no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+no data
Smart Response-no data
GPIO+no data
Turbo Boost Max 3.0-no data
StatusDiscontinuedno data

Security technologies

Pentium Silver N5000 and A6-9225 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

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

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and A6-9225 are enumerated here.

VT-d+no data
VT-x+no data
EPT+no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and A6-9225. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR4
Maximum memory size8 GBno data
Max memory channels2no data
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/sno data
ECC memory support-no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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Intel UHD Graphics 605AMD Radeon R4 (Stoney Ridge)
Max video memory8 GBno data
Quick Sync Video+no data
Graphics max frequency750 MHzno data
Execution Units18no data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Silver N5000 and A6-9225 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported3no data
eDP+no data
DisplayPort+no data
HDMI+no data
MIPI-DSI+no data

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and A6-9225 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support+no data

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and A6-9225 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12no data
OpenGL4.4no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Silver N5000 and A6-9225.

PCIe version2.0no data
PCI Express lanes6no data
USB revision2.0/3.0no data
Total number of SATA ports2no data
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports2no data
Number of USB ports8no data
Integrated LAN-no data
UART+no 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.

Pentium Silver N5000 1.58
+83.7%
A6-9225 0.86

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A6-9225 by 84% 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%

Pentium Silver N5000 2442
+83.6%
A6-9225 1330

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A6-9225 by 84% 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%

Pentium Silver N5000 349
+28.8%
A6-9225 271

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A6-9225 by 29% 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%

Pentium Silver N5000 868
+91.6%
A6-9225 453

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A6-9225 by 92% 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%

Pentium Silver N5000 2295
A6-9225 2532
+10.3%

A6-9225 outperforms Pentium Silver N5000 by 10% 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%

Pentium Silver N5000 6688
+59.5%
A6-9225 4193

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A6-9225 by 60% 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%

Pentium Silver N5000 3320
+55.7%
A6-9225 2132

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A6-9225 by 56% 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%

Pentium Silver N5000 16.83
+56.1%
A6-9225 26.28

A6-9225 outperforms Pentium Silver N5000 by 56% 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%

Pentium Silver N5000 3
+126%
A6-9225 1

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A6-9225 by 126% 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%

Pentium Silver N5000 237
+118%
A6-9225 109

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A6-9225 by 118% 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%

Pentium Silver N5000 78
+6.8%
A6-9225 73

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A6-9225 by 7% 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%

Pentium Silver N5000 0.94
+10.6%
A6-9225 0.85

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A6-9225 by 11% 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%

Pentium Silver N5000 1.9
+88.1%
A6-9225 1

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A6-9225 by 88% 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%

Pentium Silver N5000 1245
+46.1%
A6-9225 852

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A6-9225 by 46% 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%

Pentium Silver N5000 76
+56%
A6-9225 49

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A6-9225 by 56% 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%

Pentium Silver N5000 15
+69.2%
A6-9225 9

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A6-9225 by 69% in x264 encoding pass 2.

Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core

Benchmark coverage: 5%

Pentium Silver N5000 1778
A6-9225 1855
+4.4%

A6-9225 outperforms Pentium Silver N5000 by 4% in Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core.

Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core

Benchmark coverage: 5%

Pentium Silver N5000 5548
+78.8%
A6-9225 3103

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A6-9225 by 79% in Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core.

Geekbench 2

Benchmark coverage: 5%

Pentium Silver N5000 4819
+22.4%
A6-9225 3936

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A6-9225 by 22% in Geekbench 2.

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit multi-core

Benchmark coverage: 2%

Pentium Silver N5000 5488
+80.8%
A6-9225 3035

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A6-9225 by 81% in Geekbench 4.0 64-bit multi-core.

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit single-core

Benchmark coverage: 2%

Pentium Silver N5000 2045
+6.5%
A6-9225 1920

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A6-9225 by 7% in Geekbench 4.0 64-bit single-core.

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.58 0.86
Recency 11 December 2017 1 June 2018
Physical cores 4 2
Threads 4 2
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 6 Watt 15 Watt

The Pentium Silver N5000 is our recommended choice as it beats the A6-9225 in performance tests.


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