Intel Pentium Silver N6000 vs Intel Core i9-10980HK. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Intel Pentium Intel Core i9
• Generation
  10 10
• CPU group
  Intel Pentium N6000 Intel Core i 10000H

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  1.10 GHz 2.40 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 8
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.30 GHz 5.30 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 16
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• A core
  -- Tremont --

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

• GPU name
  Intel UHD Graphics 32 EUs (Elkhart Lake) Intel UHD Graphics 630
• GPU frequency
  0.40 GHz 0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.85 GHz 1.25 GHz
• Execution units
  32 24
• Shader
  256 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 64 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  11 9.5
• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Technology
  10 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2021 Q4/2017

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  Decode No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i9-10980HK and Intel Pentium Silver N6000. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2933 DDR4-2933
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 128 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  12 16

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium Silver N6000 and Intel Core i9-10980HK to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  6 W 45 W
• TDP (PL2)
  20 W --
• TDP down
  4.8 W --
• Tjunction max.
  -- 100 °C

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

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  1.50 MB --
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 16.00 MB
• Architecture
  Jasper Lake Comet Lake H
• Technology
  10 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1090 BGA 1440
• Release date
  Q4/2021 Q2/2020