Intel Core i3-8109U vs Intel Pentium Silver N6005. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Intel Core i 8000U Intel Pentium N6000
• Family
  Intel Core i3 Intel Pentium
• Generation
  8 10
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• A-Core
  - -- Tremont
• Base Frequency
  3 GHz 2 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.6 GHz 3.3 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  3.2 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  - 3 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Execution units
  48 32
• Generation
  9.5 11
• GPU Frequency
  300 MHz 500 MHz
• GPU name
  Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 Intel UHD Graphics 32 EUs (Elkhart Lake)
• GPU Turbo
  1050 MHz 900 MHz
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  32 GB -
• Release date
  Q4/2017 Q1/2021
• Shader
  384 256
• Technology
  14 nm 10 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No Decode
• H.264 / AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Pentium Silver N6005 and Intel Core i3-8109U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 SO-DIMM DDR4-2933
• PCIe lanes
  16 12
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i3-8109U and Intel Pentium Silver N6005 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  28 W 10 W
• TDP (PL2)
  - 20 W
• TDP down
  20 W -

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i3-8109U and Intel Pentium Silver N6005, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Coffee Lake U Jasper Lake
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L2-Cache
  - 1.5 MB
• L3-Cache
  4 MB 4 MB
• Release date
  Q4/2017 Q4/2021
• Socket
  BGA 1528 BGA 1090
• Technology
  14 nm 10 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d