AMD Athlon Gold 3150C vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Processor comparisons   12-01-2022
   If there are difficulties with the choice of a CPU, you will solve them by reading the detailed tests AMD Athlon Gold 3150C vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000 and decide which is better for games or normal use for programming, streaming, rendering, video editing, machine learning. Here is all information from different benchmarks or real video editing and streaming tests. A careful review of all the specifications, so that it can be easier to read, is summarized in the table.
   From the video comparison, you can get the results of parallel examination in synthetic type tests such as Blender, Dolphin Emulator, Furmark, SuperPi, GeekBench 6, 5.2, PassMark, VeraCrypt, Handbrake, DaVinci Resolve Studio, 3DMark, MATLAB, Prime95, UserBenchmark, Cinebench 23 (20, 15), Blender, AIDA64, PCMark 10, Gears 5, 7zip, WPrime, RealBench, World of Tanks enCore Benchmark.
   Gaming performance of processors in:

Red Dead Redemption 2
Fallout 76
Death Stranding
Rainbow Six Siege
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands
Borderlands 3
Watch Dogs Legion
Apex Legends
DOOM: Eternal
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone
Fortnite
Assassin's Creed Valhalla
Cyberpunk 2077
Halo Infinite
Grand Theft Auto V
Overwatch
Valorant
Last Man Standing
Valheim

After looking at the data of all benchmarks and videos, you can already make an briefed decision about which CPU is better to buy for gaming Intel Pentium Silver N6000 or AMD Athlon Gold 3150C.

Summary benchmark results

As a percentage of the maximum value based on a sample from the entire base of all processors
Processor Benchmark

Athlon Gold 3150C

51%

Pentium Silver N6000

51%

Gaming performance
Summary result of all game benchmarks.

Athlon Gold 3150C

51%

Pentium Silver N6000

51%

The maximum result in this parameter is 100 percent, which is the performance of the most powerful processor at the moment. And of course, this is a server processor, on which no one will run games. Because this processor costs several tens of thousands of dollars. And if it seems to you that the selected CPU has a small game result, look at the FPS that it produces in real games in the final table below.
List of other games in which CPU comparisons were performed: Hitman 3, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Battlefield V, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS GO), Microsoft Flight Simulator, League of Legends (LOL), DOTA 2A, Monster Hunter World, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG), Forza Horizon 4, Horizon Zero Dawn, Half-Life: Alyx, Resident Evil 7 Biohazard, Ghostrunner, Metro Exodus, NBA 2K20, Control, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

Gaming benchmark

Fortnite	89.8	90.1
Valorant	102.1	102.4
Cyberpunk 2077	57.2	57.3
Apex Legends	95.9	96.2
Call of Duty Warzone	76.6	76.8
Overwatch	82.7	82.9
Red Dead Redemption 2	70.4	70.6
DOOM Eternal	51.0	51.2
Warzone	79.6	79.8
Assassin's Creed	85.7	86.0
Valheim	84.7	85.0

The numbers in this table indicate the maximum FPS that was received on the device with the corresponding processor. Depending on the configuration of the computer (RAM size and Video Card) and graphics quality settings (Ultra, Medium, Normal), the results may differ quite significantly. We recommend that you better study the results of the Cinebench, GeekBench and Passmark becnmarks.
The computers that were in the comparisons not only did they have different amounts of RAM and different video cards. But users also tested them at different screen resolutions: 2K, 4K or FullHD. Therefore, the game benchmark data is approximate. But all video cards met the average system requirements of games. To be sure exactly how much performance the processor will be in games, if you compare it in one assembly with the video card that is installed in your computer.

Power consumption

Athlon Gold 3150C

177%

Pentium Silver N6000

385%

To make a finishing resolution on which processor is better, you should also consider the generation of its core. The newer the processor generation, the better its performance in games and benchmarks, as well as its energy efficiency. In this case the Pentium Silver N6000 is more energy efficient than the Athlon Gold 3150C as it consumes less power: 15W vs. 6W. Power consumption is particularly important for laptops. Also, when choosing a processor cooling system, it will be useful to know its TDP. You need to buy a cooler that has the TDP data specified in the specification was greater than the TDP of the compared processor.

Software benchmarks

Let's say you plan to use the processor not only for gaming, but also for streaming, machine learning, video editing or video rendering, programming, then the main parameter for you is its performance in multi-threaded mode. In this mode, to achieve maximum performance, the processor uses all threads and cores that it has. You will find out this data from the benchmark tables below. Before you take into account the data from these tests, be sure to check whether the program you are going to use on your computer supports multi-threaded mode. Since there are still many programs that can use only one core to run, and all the advantages of multi-core mode are unused.
Cinebench 23, 20 an 15
The results of this benchmark show Single-threaded and Multi-threaded CPU performance

	AMD Athlon Gold 3150C	Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Cinbench 15 Single-core	140	103
Cinbench 15 Multi-core	350	342
Cinbench 20 Single-core	208	212
Cinbench 20 Multi-core	761	788
Cinbench 23 Single-core	431	676
Cinbench 23 Multi-core	2071	2502

Passmark
This popular benchmark displays Multi-threaded and Single-threaded processor performance

	AMD Athlon Gold 3150C	Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Single-Core	1974	1529
Multi-Core	3650	4044

GeekBench 6, 5.2
This benchmark shows Multi-threaded and Single-threaded processor performance

	AMD Athlon Gold 3150C	Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Single-Core	798	693
Multi-Core	1788	2029

Comparison of specifications

In the specification comparison table, the most helpful will be the the possibility of overclocking it and release date of the processor. The newer the processor, the longer it will last you. And the easier it will be to upgrade the system in the future. The same benefits from the presence of overclocking. When the processor can be overclocked, thereby increasing its performance, then it will still be able to produce maximum FPS even in the newest games. The savings are obvious! It turns out that you do not need to buy a new CPU to enjoy the games any longer.

	AMD Athlon Gold 3150C	Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Announcement date	September 22, 2020	January 01, 2020
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Socket	FP5	FCBGA1338
Core name	Dali	Jasper Lake
Architecture	Zen	x86
Generation	1	7
Turbo Frequency	3.3 MHz	3.2 MHz
Frequency	2.4 MHz	1.1 MHz
Cores	2	4
Threads	4	4
Bus rate
Bit	64	64
Lithography	14 nm	10 nm
Transistors count	1400 millions	1400 millions
Power consumption (TDP)	15 W	6 W
Memory type	DDR4	DDR4 LPDDR4x
Max. Memory		16 Gb
Memory Frequency	2400
Memory bandwidth
L1 cache	192KB
L2 cache	1MB
L3 cache	4MB	4 MB
Overclocking	No	No
Supports ECC	No	No
Part number	YM315CC4T2OFG

In this comparison block, you should pay attention to the differences in clock speed and the number of cores. Here Athlon Gold 3150C is 54% better than Pentium Silver N6000 in terms of CPU frequency. Another difference is that Pentium Silver N6000 has 2 more core than Athlon Gold 3150C. Also keep in mind that high CPU frequency affects battery life through power consumption (relevant for laptops).

Result:
The number of parameters for which AMD Athlon Gold 3150C is better: 11
The number of parameters for which Intel Pentium Silver N6000 is better: 22
Although it should be realized that the summary data in the text above do not mean that taking them into account you should totally trust a simple quantitative comparison. Better to watch benchmarks video and read the reviews of real owners of AMD Athlon Gold 3150C and Intel Pentium Silver N6000 before making a choice which of the CPUs to buy for gaming.

AMD Athlon Gold 3150C - all data

• Cinebench r15 score
• Cinebench r20 score
• Cinebench r23 score
• GeekBench 6, 5.2 score

• AMD Athlon Gold 3150C specs and review.

Intel Pentium Silver N6000 - all data

• Cinebench r15 score
• Cinebench r20 score
• Cinebench r23 score
• GeekBench 6, 5.2 score

• Intel Pentium Silver N6000 specs and review.