amd ryzen 5 3500u vs intel pentium silver n6000

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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 5 3500U (Laptop) 4-cores against Intel Pentium Silver N6000 (Laptop) 4-cores. In this comparison page, we check which of these two processor has better performance in benchmark results, Games, architecture, price and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved

Key Differences

What are the key differences between AMD Ryzen 5 3500U and Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 3500U
  • 11% higher Turbo Boost frequency (3.7 GHz vs 3.3 GHz)
  • Supports up to 64 GB DDR4 Dual-channel RAM
Advantages of Intel Pentium Silver N6000
  • Newer released 2 years later
  • Consumes up to 60% less energy than the AMD Ryzen 5 3500U – 6 vs 15 Watt
  • More modern manufacturing process – 10 versus 12

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)

Specifications

Full technical specification of ryzen 5 3500u and pentium silver n6000

General

AMD Ryzen 5 3500U Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Vendor AMD Intel
Released January 6 2019 January 11 2021
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Picasso Jasper Lake
Socket FP5 FCBGA1338
Integrated GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) Intel UHD Graphics

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 3500U Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Cores 4 4
Threads 8 4
Base Frequency 2.1 GHz 1.1 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 3.7 GHz 3.3 GHz
L1 Cache 128K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 1.5 MB
L3 Cache 4 MB (shared) 4 MB

Power

AMD Ryzen 5 3500U Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Fabrication process 12 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 W 6 W
Max. temperature °C 105°C

Memory support

AMD Ryzen 5 3500U Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Memory types DDR4 Dual-channel DDR4
Memory Size 64 GB 16 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 38.397 GB/s -
ECC Support Yes No

iGPU

AMD Ryzen 5 3500U Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Integrated Graphics AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) Intel UHD Graphics
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 350 MHz
GPU Boost Clock MHz 850 MHz
Shading Units 512 256
TMUs 32 16
ROPs 8 8
Execution Units 32
TGP 65 W 10 W
iGPU FLOPS
1.13 TFLOPS
0.38 TFLOPS

Misc

AMD Ryzen 5 3500U Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Official site AMD Ryzen 5 3500U official page Intel Pentium Silver N6000 official page
PCI Express Version 3
PCI Express Lanes 12 8

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: Intel Pentium Silver N6000 or AMD Ryzen 5 3500U?