Intel Pentium B960 vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Pentium 900 Intel Pentium N6000
• Family
  Intel Pentium Intel Pentium
• Generation
  2 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
  2.2 GHz 1.1 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.3 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  No turbo -
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  - 2.5 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
  10.1 12
• Execution units
  6 32
• Generation
  6 11
• GPU Frequency
  650 MHz 400 MHz
• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1) Intel UHD Graphics 32 EUs (Elkhart Lake)
• GPU Turbo
  1100 MHz 850 MHz
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Release date
  Q2/2011 Q1/2021
• Shader
  48 256
• Technology
  32 nm 10 nm

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Pentium Silver N6000 and Intel Pentium B960. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1066DDR3-1333 DDR4-2933
• PCIe lanes
  16 12
• PCIe version
  2.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium B960 and Intel Pentium Silver N6000 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  85 °C -
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  35 W 6 W
• TDP (PL2)
  - 20 W
• TDP down
  - 4.8 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium B960 and Intel Pentium Silver N6000, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Sandy Bridge U Jasper Lake
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L2-Cache
  - 1.5 MB
• L3-Cache
  2 MB 4 MB
• Release date
  Q4/2011 Q4/2021
• Socket
  PGA 988 BGA 1090
• Technology
  32 nm 10 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d