Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y vs Pentium Silver N6000

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Combined performance score

Pentium Silver N6000
1.99
+1.5%

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms Pentium Gold 6500Y by 2% in our combined benchmark results.

General info

Comparing Pentium Silver N6000 and Pentium Gold 6500Y processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking18061815
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Architecture codenameJasper Lake (2021)Amber Lake-Y (2018−2021)
Release date11 January 2021 (3 years old)1 March 2021 (3 years old)

Technical specs

Pentium Silver N6000 and Pentium Gold 6500Y 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)
Threads44
Base clock speed1.1 GHz1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed3.3 GHz3.4 GHz
L1 cacheno data128 KB
L2 cache1.5 MB512 KB
L3 cache4 MB4 MB
Chip lithography10 nm14 nm
Maximum core temperature105 °C100 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver N6000 and Pentium Gold 6500Y 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
SocketFCBGA1338BGA1515
Power consumption (TDP)6 Watt5 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and Pentium Gold 6500Y. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2
AES-NI++
AVXno data+
vProno data+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shift++
Turbo Boost Technology-2.0
Hyper-Threading Technology-+
TSXno data-
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring++
Flex Memory Accessno data+
SIPPno data-
GPIO+no data
Turbo Boost Max 3.0-no data
StatusLaunchedDiscontinued

Security technologies

Pentium Silver N6000 and Pentium Gold 6500Y technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-+
EDBno data+
Secure Keyno data+
MPXno data+
Identity Protection++
SGX-no data
OS Guard++

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and Pentium Gold 6500Y are enumerated here.

AMD-Vno data+
VT-d++
VT-x++
EPT++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and Pentium Gold 6500Y. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4, DDR4DDR3, DDR3
Maximum memory size16 GB16 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidthno data33.3 GB/s
ECC memory support--

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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Intel UHD GraphicsIntel UHD Graphics 615
Max video memoryno data16 GB
Quick Sync Video++
Clear Videono data+
Clear Video HDno data+
Graphics max frequency850 MHz900 MHz
Execution Units3223

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Silver N6000 and Pentium Gold 6500Y integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported33
eDP++
DisplayPort++
HDMI++
DVIno data+
MIPI-DSI+no data

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and Pentium Gold 6500Y integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support++
Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096x2160@60Hz4096x2304@24Hz
Max resolution over eDPno data3840x2160@60Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPort4096x2160@60Hz3840x2160@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and Pentium Gold 6500Y integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX1212
OpenGL4.54.5

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and Pentium Gold 6500Y.

PCIe versionno data3.0
PCI Express lanes810
USB revision2.0/3.2no data
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports2no data
Number of USB ports14no 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 N6000 1.99
+1.5%
Pentium Gold 6500Y 1.96

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms Pentium Gold 6500Y by 2% in our combined 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 N6000 3049
+1.2%
Pentium Gold 6500Y 3012

Pentium Silver N6000 outperforms Pentium Gold 6500Y by 1% in Passmark.

Gaming performance

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 1.99 1.96
Integrated graphics card 1.57
Recency 11 January 2021 1 March 2021
Physical cores 4 2
Chip lithography 10 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 6 Watt 5 Watt

We couldn't decide between Pentium Silver N6000 and Pentium Gold 6500Y. The differences in performance seem too small.


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