Apple M2 Pro vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

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We compared two laptop CPUs: Apple M2 Pro with 12 cores 3.5GHz and Intel Pentium Silver N6000 with 4 cores 1.1GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Apple M2 Pro 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Better graphics card performance

Higher specification of memory (LPDDR5-6400 vs LPDDR4x-2933)

Larger memory bandwidth (204.8GB/s vs 46.9GB/s)

Newer PCIe version (4.0 vs 3.0)

Higher base frequency (3.5GHz vs 1.1GHz)

Intel Pentium Silver N6000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 30W)

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

Apple M2 Pro +110%

1601

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

760

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

Apple M2 Pro +580%

13932

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

2048

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple M2 Pro +401%

2650

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

528

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple M2 Pro +1107%

14275

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

1182

Blender

Apple M2 Pro +1068%

257

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

22

Geekbench 5 Single Core

Apple M2 Pro +173%

1986

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

726

Geekbench 5 Multi Core

Apple M2 Pro +753%

14863

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

1742

Passmark CPU Single Core

Apple M2 Pro +190%

4116

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

1417

Passmark CPU Multi Core

Apple M2 Pro +738%

26265

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

3132

Apple M2 Pro

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Intel Pentium Silver N6000

General Parameters

Jan 2023

Release Date

Jan 2021

Apple

Manufacturer

Intel

Laptop

Type

Laptop

ARMv8

Instruction Set

x86-64

Apple M2

Core Architecture

Jasper Lake

-

Processor Number

N6000

Apple M-Socket

Socket

BGA-1338

Apple M2 Pro GPU (19-core)

Integrated Graphics

UHD Graphics 32 EUs

Package

40 billions

Transistor Count

-

5 nm

Manufacturing Process

10 nm

Apple M-Socket

Socket

BGA-1338

30 W

Power Consumption

6 W

100°C

Peak Operating Temperature

105 °C

CPU Performance

8

Performance Cores

4

8

Performance Core Threads

4

3.5 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

1.1 GHz

4

Efficiency Cores

-

4

Efficiency Core Threads

-

2.4 GHz

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

-

12

Total Core Count

4

12

Total Thread Count

4

-

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

-

Multiplier

11x

192 K per core

L1 Cache

-

32 MB shared

L2 Cache

384 K per core

-

L3 Cache

4 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

Memory Parameters

LPDDR5-6400

Memory Types

DDR4-2666, LPDDR4x-2933

32 GB

Max Memory Size

16 GB

4

Max Memory Channels

2

204.8 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

46.9 GB/s

No

ECC Memory Support

No

Graphics Card Parameters

true

Integrated Graphics

true

450 MHz

GPU Base Frequency

350 MHz

1398 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

850 MHz

2432

Shader Units

256

152

Texture Units

16

76

Raster Operation Units

8

304

Execution Units

32

35 W

Power Consumption

10 W

7680x4320 - 60 Hz

Max Resolution

-

6.8 TFLOPS

Graphics Performance

0.38 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

-

Official Website

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

4.0

PCIe Version

3.0

-

PCIe Lanes

8

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