Intel Pentium Silver N6000 vs AMD Athlon 300GE

Processor comparisons   28-06-2021
   If you can't decide which CPU to buy, you can make a choice after reading the detailed tests Intel Pentium Silver N6000 vs AMD Athlon 300GE and understand which is better for games or simple use for video editing, machine learning, rendering, streaming, programming. Here you can find useful information from real streaming and video editing tests or many benchmarks. A thorough review of all the specifications, to make it easier to understand, is presented in the form of the table.
   From the comparison video, you can get the results of parallel examination in synthetic type tests like PassMark, 7zip, Prime95, VeraCrypt, Cinebench 23 (20, 15), Gears 5, UserBenchmark, 3DMark, Dolphin Emulator, Furmark, Blender, SuperPi, World of Tanks enCore Benchmark, WPrime, RealBench, Blender, AIDA64, PCMark 10, GeekBench 6, 5.2, Handbrake, DaVinci Resolve Studio, MATLAB.
   And how good the CPUs are in games:

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

After reading the results of joint benchmarks and videos, you already be able to know which CPU is better to buy for gaming AMD Athlon 300GE or Intel Pentium Silver N6000.

Summary benchmark results

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

Pentium Silver N6000

51%

Athlon 300GE

51%

Gaming performance
Summary result of all game benchmarks.

Pentium Silver N6000

51%

Athlon 300GE

51%

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

Gaming benchmark

Fortnite	90.1	90.2
Valorant	102.4	102.5
Cyberpunk 2077	57.3	57.4
Apex Legends	96.2	96.4
Call of Duty Warzone	76.8	76.9
Overwatch	82.9	83.1
Red Dead Redemption 2	70.6	70.7
DOOM Eternal	51.2	51.3
Warzone	79.8	80.0
Assassin's Creed	86.0	86.1
Valheim	85.0	85.1

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 participating in the comparisons not only were the equipped with different video cards and different amounts of RAM. 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

Pentium Silver N6000

385%

Athlon 300GE

89%

To make a final resolution on which processor is better, you should also consider the generation of its core. It is clear that the newer the generation, the better the performance of the processor in games and benchmarks, as well as its energy efficiency. In this case the Pentium Silver N6000 is more energy efficient than the Athlon 300GE since it has less power consumption: 6W vs. 35W. Power consumption is especially important for laptops. And TDP should be taken into account when choosing a processor cooling system. It is necessary to calculate so that the TDP data specified in the cooler specification is greater than the TDP of the compared processor.

Software benchmarks

If you plan to use the processor not only for gaming, but also for machine learning, streaming, video editing or video rendering, programming, then first of all you need to pay attention to the performance in multi-threaded mode. In this mode, to reach maximum performance, the CPU includes all cores and threads that it has. You will learn this data from the benchmark tables below. Before using the data from these tests, be sure to find out whether the program that you are going to use on your computer can work in multi-threaded mode. Because there are still many programs that use only one core to work, and all the benefit of multi-core mode turns out to be unnecessary.
Cinebench 23, 20 an 15
The results of this benchmark show Single-threaded and Multi-threaded CPU performance

	Intel Pentium Silver N6000	AMD Athlon 300GE
Cinbench 15 Single-core	103	89
Cinbench 15 Multi-core	342	471
Cinbench 20 Single-core	212	225
Cinbench 20 Multi-core	788	1027
Cinbench 23 Single-core	676	580
Cinbench 23 Multi-core	2502	2791

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

	Intel Pentium Silver N6000	AMD Athlon 300GE
Single-Core	1529	2097
Multi-Core	4044	4919

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

	Intel Pentium Silver N6000	AMD Athlon 300GE
Single-Core	693	942
Multi-Core	2029	2187

Comparison of specifications

In the specification comparison table, the most useful will be the the possibility of overclocking it and release date of the processor. The later the processor is released, the longer it will last in your computer. And the easier it will be to upgrade the system later. The same benefits from the presence of overclocking. If the processor can be overclocked, increasing its performance, then it will continue to maintain maximum FPS in new games. The economy are obvious! Accordingly, you do not need to buy a new CPU to enjoy the games any longer.

	Intel Pentium Silver N6000	AMD Athlon 300GE
Announcement date	January 01, 2020	July 07, 2019
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Socket	FCBGA1338	AM4
Core name	Jasper Lake	Picasso
Architecture	x86	Zen+
Generation	7	2
Turbo Frequency	3.2 MHz
Frequency	1.1 MHz	3.4 MHz
Cores	4	2
Threads	4	4
Bus rate
Bit	64	64
Lithography	10 nm	14 nm
Transistors count	1400 millions	2200 millions
Power consumption (TDP)	6 W	35 W
Memory type	DDR4 LPDDR4x
Max. Memory	16 Gb
Memory Frequency		2667
Memory bandwidth
L1 cache		192KB
L2 cache		1MB
L3 cache	4 MB	4MB
Overclocking	No	Yes
Supports ECC	No	No
Part number		YD30GEC6M2OFH

In this comparison block, you should pay attention to the differences in clock speed and the number of cores. Here Athlon 300GE is 67% better than Pentium Silver N6000 in terms of CPU frequency. Another difference is that Pentium Silver N6000 has 2 more core than Athlon 300GE. Also keep in mind that high CPU frequency affects battery life through power consumption (relevant for laptops).

Result:
The number of parameters for which Intel Pentium Silver N6000 is better: 9
The number of parameters for which AMD Athlon 300GE is better: 26
However, it should be understood that the summary data that you have looked at here do not mean that taking them into account you should undividedly trust a simple comparison of these numbers. Better to watch the video tests and read the reviews of of people who bought Intel Pentium Silver N6000 and AMD Athlon 300GE before making a choice which processor to buy for gaming and which not.

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.

AMD Athlon 300GE - all data

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

• AMD Athlon 300GE specs and review.