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Intel Pentium Silver N6000 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

19 out of 100
Intel Pentium Silver N6000
VS
38 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Intel Pentium Silver N6000
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 1.1 GHz Intel Pentium Silver N6000 with 4-cores against the 2.1 GHz AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with 6-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Performance
  4. Specs
  5. Comments

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 5500U and N6000
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
  • More powerful Radeon RX Vega 7 integrated graphics: 1.6 vs 0.4 TFLOPS
  • 2.7x faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 1526 vs 558 points
  • Has 4 MB larger L3 cache size
  • Supports up to 32 GB DDR4-3200 RAM
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 10 nanometers

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Pentium Silver N6000
vs
Ryzen 5 5500U

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
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GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
File compression 137.1 MB/sec 504.2 MB/sec
Clang compilation 10.4 Klines/sec 32.5 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 53.3 pages/sec 103.5 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 44 Mpixels/sec 151.5 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 110.1 pages/sec 124.6 pages/sec
Background blur 3.57 images/sec 27.2 images/sec
Photo processing 5.93 images/sec 49.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 2.67 Mpixels/sec 8.97 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 631 & 599 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Integer math 10.9 GOps/sec 44.4 GOps/sec
Floating point math 6.4 GOps/sec 25.6 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 11M Primes/sec 26M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 4.9M Strings/sec 18.7M Strings/sec
Data encryption 2.2 GBytes/sec 10.2 GBytes/sec
Data compression 36 MBytes/sec 171.4 MBytes/sec
Physics 217 Frames/sec 526 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 1B Matrices/sec 10.7B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 336 & 6029 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 18.5 PPW 16.2 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 204.8 PPW 240.2 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 485 PPW 504.4 PPW
Blender / Watt 2.96 PPW 3.68 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Pentium Silver N6000
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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-08-11 (Akhil)Cinebench 202468 / 404
πŸ“˜ 2025-06-06 (DON'T_SYBAU ❀️)GeekBench1515 / 6409
πŸ“˜ 2025-06-04 (Micro_review)GeekBench1526 / 6005
πŸ“˜ 2025-05-14 (Josh Passed)Cinebench 202469 / 315
πŸ“˜ 2024-05-30 (Wildan)Cinebench 202468 / 367
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Pentium Silver N6000 and AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released January 11, 2021 January 12, 2021
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Jasper Lake Zen 2 (Lucienne)
Model number N6000 -
Integrated GPU UHD Graphics 32 EUs Radeon RX Vega 7
Rival Equivalent - - Intel Core i5 1135G7
Successor - - AMD Ryzen 5 7520U
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#165th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 6
P-Threads 4 12
Base Frequency (P) 1.1 GHz 2.1 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) - 4 GHz
Total
Total Cores 4 6
Total Threads 4 12
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 11x 21x
L1 Cache - 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 384K (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 4MB (shared) 8MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Fabrication Process 10 nm 7 nm
TDP (PL1) 6 W 10-25 W (configurable)
Socket BGA-1338 FP6
Peak Temperature 105Β°C 105Β°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel UHD Graphics 32 EUs Radeon RX Vega 7
GPU Base Clock 350 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 850 MHz 1800 MHz
Shading Units 256 448
TMUs 16 28
ROPs 8 8
Execution Units 32 7
TGP 6-10 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
Pentium Silver N6000
0.4 TFLOPS
Ryzen 5 5500U +300%
1.6 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon RX Vega 7 compared to UHD Graphics Gen 11 (32 EU)

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR4-2666
- LPDDR4x-2933		 - DDR4-3200
- LPDDR4-4266
Max. Memory Size 16 GB 32 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Pentium Silver N6000 official page AMD Ryzen 5 5500U official page
PCI Express Version 3.0 3.0
PCI Express Lanes 8 12

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Total votes: 20

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Comments

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