Pentium Silver N6000 vs Xeon Gold 6328HL

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Primary details

Comparing Xeon Gold 6328HL and Pentium Silver N6000 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated1951
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentServerLaptop
Power efficiencyno data30.34
Architecture codenameCooper Lake-SP (2021)Jasper Lake (2021)
Release date6 April 2021 (3 years ago)11 January 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Xeon Gold 6328HL 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 cores16 (Hexadeca-Core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads324
Base clock speed2.8 GHz1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed4.3 GHz3.3 GHz
L1 cache64K (per core)no data
L2 cache1 MB (per core)1.5 MB
L3 cache22 MB (shared)4 MB
Chip lithography14 nm10 nm
Maximum core temperatureno data105 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Xeon Gold 6328HL 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 configuration41
SocketFCLGA4189FCBGA1338
Power consumption (TDP)165 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon Gold 6328HL and Pentium Silver N6000. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI++
AVX+-
vPro+no data
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shift++
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technology+-
TSX+-
Thermal Monitoring-+
GPIOno data+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-
Deep Learning Boost+-

Security technologies

Xeon Gold 6328HL and Pentium Silver N6000 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+-
EDB+no data
Identity Protection-+
SGXno data-
OS Guardno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon Gold 6328HL and Pentium Silver N6000 are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon Gold 6328HL and Pentium Silver N6000. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4 RDIMMDDR4
Maximum memory size4.5 TB16 GB
Max memory channels62
ECC memory support+-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataIntel UHD Graphics
Quick Sync Video-+
Graphics max frequencyno data850 MHz
Execution Unitsno data32

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Xeon Gold 6328HL 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 Xeon Gold 6328HL 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 Xeon Gold 6328HL and Pentium Silver N6000 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXno data12
OpenGLno data4.5

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon Gold 6328HL and Pentium Silver N6000.

PCIe version3.0no data
PCI Express lanes488
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+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 April 2021 11 January 2021
Physical cores 16 4
Threads 32 4
Chip lithography 14 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 165 Watt 6 Watt

Xeon Gold 6328HL has an age advantage of 2 months, and 300% more physical cores and 700% more threads.

Pentium Silver N6000, on the other hand, has a 40% more advanced lithography process, and 2650% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Xeon Gold 6328HL and Pentium Silver N6000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Xeon Gold 6328HL is a server/workstation processor while Pentium Silver N6000 is a notebook one.


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