Intel Pentium Silver N6000 vs Celeron N5100

We compared two 4-core laptop CPUs: the 1.1 GHz Intel Pentium Silver N6000 against the 1.1 GHz Celeron N5100. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

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 N5100 and N6000
Advantages of Intel Pentium Silver N6000
  • More powerful Intel UHD Graphics 32 EUs integrated graphics: 0.4 vs 0.3 TFLOPS
  • 15% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 558 vs 485 points

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench

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

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 152.3 MB/sec
Clang compilation 10.4 Klines/sec 10.9 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 53.3 pages/sec 42.9 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 44 Mpixels/sec 54.4 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 110.1 pages/sec 91.6 pages/sec
Background blur 3.57 images/sec 3.28 images/sec
Photo processing 5.93 images/sec 6.23 images/sec
Ray tracing 2.67 Mpixels/sec 1.86 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2]631 & 425 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 11.8 GOps/sec
Floating point math 6.4 GOps/sec 7.2 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 11M Primes/sec 12M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 4.9M Strings/sec 5.7M Strings/sec
Data encryption 2.2 GBytes/sec 2.5 GBytes/sec
Data compression 36 MBytes/sec 41.8 MBytes/sec
Physics 217 Frames/sec 243 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 1B Matrices/sec 1.2B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4]336 & 430 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 16.3 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 204.8 PPW 191.8 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 485 PPW 551 PPW
Blender / Watt 2.96 PPW 2.07 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Pentium Silver N6000 and Celeron N5100

General

Vendor Intel Intel
Released January 11, 2021 January 11, 2021
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Jasper Lake Jasper Lake
Model number N6000 N5100
Integrated GPU UHD Graphics 32 EUs UHD Graphics (Jasper Lake 24 EU)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 4
P-Threads 4 4
Base Frequency (P) 1.1 GHz 1.1 GHz
Total
Total Cores 4 4
Total Threads 4 4
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 11x 11x
L2 Cache 384K (per core) 384K (per core)
L3 Cache 4MB (shared) 4MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Fabrication Process 10 nm 10 nm
TDP (PL1) 6 W 6 W
Socket BGA-1338 BGA-1338
Peak Temperature 105°C 105°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel UHD Graphics 32 EUs Intel UHD Graphics (Jasper Lake 24 EU)
GPU Base Clock 350 MHz -
GPU Boost Clock 850 MHz 800 MHz
Shading Units 256 192
TMUs 16 12
ROPs 8 6
Execution Units 32 24
TGP 6-10 W 6-10 W
iGPU FLOPS
0.4 TFLOPS
0.3 TFLOPS

Memory Support

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

Misc

Official Site Intel Pentium Silver N6000 official page Intel Celeron N5100 official page
PCI Express Version 3.0 3.0
PCI Express Lanes 8 8

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Comments

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