amd ryzen 5 5500u vs intel pentium silver n6000

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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U (Laptop) 6-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 5500U and Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • Has 4 MB larger L3 cache size
  • 18% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4 GHz vs 3.3 GHz)
  • More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 10
  • Supports up to 64 GB DDR4-4266 RAM
Advantages of Intel Pentium Silver N6000
  • Newer released 0 years later
  • Consumes up to 76% less energy than the AMD Ryzen 5 5500U – 6 vs 25 Watt

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 5500u and pentium silver n6000

General

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Vendor AMD Intel
Released January 7 2021 January 11 2021
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Lucienne U Jasper Lake
Socket FP6 FCBGA1338
Integrated GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 Intel UHD Graphics

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Cores 6 4
Threads 12 4
Base Frequency 2.1 GHz 1.1 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4 GHz 3.3 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 1.5 MB
L3 Cache 8 MB (shared) 4 MB

Power

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Fabrication process 7 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 W 6 W
Max. temperature 105°C 105°C

Memory support

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Memory types DDR4-4266 DDR4
Memory Size 64 GB 16 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth - -
ECC Support No No

iGPU

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Integrated Graphics AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 Intel UHD Graphics
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 350 MHz
GPU Boost Clock MHz 850 MHz
Shading Units 448 256
TMUs 28 16
ROPs 7 8
Execution Units 32
TGP 0 W 10 W
iGPU FLOPS
1.108 TFLOPS
0.38 TFLOPS

Misc

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Official site AMD Ryzen 5 5500U official page Intel Pentium Silver N6000 official page
PCI Express Version 3
PCI Express Lanes 8

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: Intel Pentium Silver N6000 or AMD Ryzen 5 5500U?