U300 vs Pentium Silver N6000

Place in the ranking	1972	1194
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Power efficiency	30.13	9.02
Architecture codename	Jasper Lake (2021)	no data
Release date	11 January 2021 (3 years ago)	1 January 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium Silver N6000 and U300 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 cores	4 (Quad-Core)	5 (Penta-Core)
Performance-cores	no data	1
Efficient-cores	no data	4
Threads	4	6
Base clock speed	1.1 GHz	no data
Boost clock speed	3.3 GHz	4.4 GHz
L2 cache	1.5 MB	no data
L3 cache	4 MB	8 MB Intel® Smart Cache
Chip lithography	10 nm	Intel 7 nm
Maximum core temperature	105 °C	100 °C
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	no data

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver N6000 and U300 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 configuration	1	1
Socket	FCBGA1338	FCBGA1744
Power consumption (TDP)	6 Watt	55 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and U300. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	Intel® SSE4.2	Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2
AES-NI	+	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	no data
Speed Shift	+	+
Turbo Boost Technology	-	no data
Hyper-Threading Technology	-	+
Thermal Monitoring	+	+
Flex Memory Access	no data	+
GPIO	+	no data
Turbo Boost Max 3.0	-	no data
Deep Learning Boost	-	+

Security technologies

Pentium Silver N6000 and U300 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	-	no data
EDB	no data	+
Secure Key	no data	+
Identity Protection	+	-
SGX	-	no data
OS Guard	+	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and U300 are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and U300. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4	DDR5-5200, DDR4-3200, LPDDR4x-4267
Maximum memory size	16 GB	96 GB
Max memory channels	2	2

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card	Intel UHD Graphics	Intel UHD Graphics for 13th Gen Intel Processors
Quick Sync Video	+	+
Graphics max frequency	850 MHz	1.1 GHz
Execution Units	32	48

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Silver N6000 and U300 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported	3	4
eDP	+	no data
DisplayPort	+	-
HDMI	+	-
MIPI-DSI	+	no data

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and U300 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support	+	no data
Max resolution over HDMI 1.4	4096x2160@60Hz	4096 x 2304 @ 60Hz
Max resolution over eDP	no data	4096 x 2304 @ 120Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPort	4096x2160@60Hz	7680 x 4320 @ 60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and U300 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX	12	12.1
OpenGL	4.5	4.6

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and U300.

PCI Express lanes	8	20
USB revision	2.0/3.2	no data
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports	2	no data
Number of USB ports	14	no 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 1.91

U300 5.24
+174%

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.

Pentium Silver N6000 3037

U300 8328
+174%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	1.91	5.24
Recency	11 January 2021	1 January 2023
Physical cores	4	5
Threads	4	6
Power consumption (TDP)	6 Watt	55 Watt

Pentium Silver N6000 has 816.7% lower power consumption.

U300, on the other hand, has a 174.3% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 1 year, and 25% more physical cores and 50% more threads.

The U300 is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium Silver N6000 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between Pentium Silver N6000 and U300, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.