Intel Pentium Silver N6000 vs Apple M3 Max

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Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Apple M3 Max

We compared two laptop CPUs: Intel Pentium Silver N6000 with 4 cores 1.1GHz and Apple M3 Max with 16 cores 4.05GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Intel Pentium Silver N6000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 40W)

Apple M3 Max 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Better graphics card performance

Higher specification of memory (6400 vs 2933)

Larger memory bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 46.9GB/s)

Newer PCIe version (4.0 vs 3.0)

Higher base frequency (4.05GHz vs 1.1GHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 10nm)

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

752

Apple M3 Max +161%

1968

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

2028

Apple M3 Max +1091%

24163

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

528

Apple M3 Max +511%

3227

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

1182

Apple M3 Max +1691%

21173

Blender

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

22

Apple M3 Max +1786%

415

Passmark CPU Single Core

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

1417

Apple M3 Max +238%

4793

Passmark CPU Multi Core

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

3132

Apple M3 Max +1178%

40041

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

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Apple M3 Max

General Parameters

Jan 2021

Release Date

Oct 2023

Intel

Manufacturer

Apple

Laptop

Type

Laptop

x86-64

Instruction Set

ARMv8

Jasper Lake

Core Architecture

Apple M3

N6000

Processor Number

-

BGA-1338

Socket

Apple M-Socket

UHD Graphics 32 EUs

Integrated Graphics

Apple M3 Max GPU (38-core)

Package

-

Transistor Count

92 billions

10 nm

Manufacturing Process

3 nm

6 W

Power Consumption

40 W

105 °C

Peak Operating Temperature

100°C

CPU Performance

4

Performance Cores

12

4

Performance Core Threads

12

1.1 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

4.05 GHz

-

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4.05 GHz

-

Efficiency Cores

4

-

Efficiency Core Threads

4

-

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

2.75 GHz

-

Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency

2.57 GHz

4

Total Core Count

16

4

Total Thread Count

16

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

-

11x

Multiplier

40x

-

L1 Cache

192 K per core

384 K per core

L2 Cache

32 MB shared

4 MB shared

L3 Cache

-

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

Memory Parameters

DDR4-2666, LPDDR4x-2933

Memory Types

LPDDR5-6400

16 GB

Max Memory Size

128 GB

2

Max Memory Channels

8

46.9 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

409.6 GB/s

No

ECC Memory Support

No

Graphics Card Parameters

true

Integrated Graphics

true

350 MHz

GPU Base Frequency

500 MHz

850 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

1600 MHz

256

Shader Units

5120

16

Texture Units

320

8

Raster Operation Units

160

32

Execution Units

640

10 W

Power Consumption

-

0.38 TFLOPS

Graphics Performance

16.4 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Official Website

-

3.0

PCIe Version

4.0

8

PCIe Lanes

-

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