Apple M3 Pro vs Intel Pentium Silver N6005

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Apple M3 Pro

Intel Pentium Silver N6005

We compared two laptop CPUs: Apple M3 Pro with 12 cores 4.05GHz and Intel Pentium Silver N6005 with 4 cores 2.0GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Apple M3 Pro 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Better graphics card performance

Higher specification of memory (6400 vs 2933)

Larger memory bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 46.9GB/s)

Newer PCIe version (4.0 vs 3.0)

Higher base frequency (4.05GHz vs 2.0GHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 10nm)

Intel Pentium Silver N6005 's Advantages

Lower TDP (10W vs 30W)

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

Apple M3 Pro +151%

1992

Intel Pentium Silver N6005

793

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

Apple M3 Pro +529%

15139

Intel Pentium Silver N6005

2406

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple M3 Pro +423%

3155

Intel Pentium Silver N6005

603

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple M3 Pro +959%

15057

Intel Pentium Silver N6005

1421

Passmark CPU Single Core

Apple M3 Pro +171%

4790

Intel Pentium Silver N6005

1762

Passmark CPU Multi Core

Apple M3 Pro +397%

26949

Intel Pentium Silver N6005

5418

Apple M3 Pro

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Intel Pentium Silver N6005

General Parameters

Oct 2023

Release Date

Jan 2021

Apple

Manufacturer

Intel

Laptop

Type

Laptop

ARMv8

Instruction Set

x86-64

Apple M3

Core Architecture

Jasper Lake

-

Processor Number

N6005

Apple M-Socket

Socket

BGA-1338

Apple M3 Pro GPU (19-core)

Integrated Graphics

UHD Graphics 32 EUs

Package

37 billions

Transistor Count

-

3 nm

Manufacturing Process

10 nm

30 W

Power Consumption

10 W

100°C

Peak Operating Temperature

105 °C

CPU Performance

6

Performance Cores

4

6

Performance Core Threads

4

4.05 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.0 GHz

4.05 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

-

6

Efficiency Cores

-

6

Efficiency Core Threads

-

2.75 GHz

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

-

2.57 GHz

Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency

-

12

Total Core Count

4

12

Total Thread Count

4

40x

Multiplier

20x

192 K per core

L1 Cache

-

16 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

36 GB

Max Memory Size

16 GB

3

Max Memory Channels

2

153.6 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

46.9 GB/s

No

ECC Memory Support

No

Graphics Card Parameters

true

Integrated Graphics

true

500 MHz

GPU Base Frequency

350 MHz

1600 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

900 MHz

2304

Shader Units

256

144

Texture Units

16

72

Raster Operation Units

8

288

Execution Units

32

-

Power Consumption

10 W

7.4 TFLOPS

Graphics Performance

0.38 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

-

Official Website

Intel Pentium Silver N6005

4.0

PCIe Version

3.0

-

PCIe Lanes

8

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