Intel Core2 Duo E6600 vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030

Last updated: 2024-04-15

CPU comparison with benchmarks


Intel Core2 Duo E6600		Intel Pentium Silver N5030
CPU comparison Intel Core2 Duo E6600 or Intel Pentium Silver N5030 - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results. The Intel Core2 Duo E6600 has 2 cores with 2 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.40 GHz. Up to 16 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The Intel Core2 Duo E6600 was released in Q3/2006. The Intel Pentium Silver N5030 has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.10 GHz. The CPU supports up to 8 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Pentium Silver N5030 was released in Q4/2019.

Intel Core2 Duo (29)	Family	Intel Pentium (150)
Intel Core 2 Duo E4000/E6000 (15)	CPU group	Intel Pentium J5000/N5000 (4)
1	Generation	9
Conroe (Core)	Architecture	Gemini Lake
Desktop / Server	Segment	Mobile
--	Predecessor	--
--	Successor	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency The Intel Core2 Duo E6600 is a 2 core processor with a clock frequency of 2.40 GHz. The Intel Pentium Silver N5030 has 4 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 1.10 GHz (3.10 GHz).
Intel Core2 Duo E6600	Characteristic	Intel Pentium Silver N5030
2	Cores	4
2	Threads	4
normal	Core architecture	normal
No	Hyperthreading	No
Yes	Overclocking ?	No
2.40 GHz	Frequency	1.10 GHz
--	Turbo Frequency (1 Core)	3.10 GHz
--	Turbo Frequency (All Cores)	2.40 GHz

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.
Intel Core2 Duo E6600	Characteristic	Intel Pentium Silver N5030
--	AI hardware	--
--	AI specifications	--

Internal Graphics The integrated graphics unit of a processor is not only responsible for the pure image output on the system, but can also significantly increase the efficiency of the system with the support of modern video codecs.
no iGPU	GPU	Intel UHD Graphics 605
	GPU frequency	0.25 GHz
--	GPU (Turbo)	0.75 GHz
--	GPU Generation	9.5
	Technology	14 nm
	Max. displays	3
--	Compute units	18
--	Shader	144
No	Hardware Raytracing	No
No	Frame Generation	No
--	Max. GPU Memory	8 GB
--	DirectX Version	12

Hardware codec support A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
no iGPU	GPU	Intel UHD Graphics 605
No	Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	Decode / Encode
No	Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	Decode / Encode
No	Codec h264	Decode / Encode
No	Codec VP9	Decode / Encode
No	Codec VP8	Decode / Encode
No	Codec AV1	No
No	Codec AVC	Decode / Encode
No	Codec VC-1	Decode
No	Codec JPEG	Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe The Intel Core2 Duo E6600 supports a maximum of 16 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Pentium Silver N5030 can connect up to 8 GB of memory in 2 memory channels.
Intel Core2 Duo E6600	Characteristic	Intel Pentium Silver N5030
DDR3-1333, DDR2-1066	Memory	LPDDR4-2400, DDR4-2400
16 GB	Max. Memory	8 GB
2 (Dual Channel)	Memory channels	2 (Dual Channel)
21.3 GB/s	Max. Bandwidth	38.4 GB/s
No	ECC	No
4.00 MB	L2 Cache	--
--	L3 Cache	4.00 MB
--	PCIe version	2.0
--	PCIe lanes	6
--	PCIe Bandwidth	3.0 GB/s
Thermal Management The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The Intel Core2 Duo E6600 has a TDP of 65 W, that of the Intel Pentium Silver N5030 is 6 W.
Intel Core2 Duo E6600	Characteristic	Intel Pentium Silver N5030
65 W	TDP (PL1 / PBP)	6 W
--	TDP (PL2)	--
--	TDP up	--
--	TDP down	4.8 W
--	Tjunction max.	105 °C
Technical details The Intel Core2 Duo E6600 has a 4.00 MB cache, while the Intel Pentium Silver N5030 cache has a total of 4.00 MB.
Intel Core2 Duo E6600	Characteristic	Intel Pentium Silver N5030
65 nm	Technology	14 nm
Monolithic	Chip design	Monolithic
x86-64 (64 bit)	Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)
MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3	ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2
LGA 775	Socket	BGA 1090
VT-x	Virtualization	VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
No	AES-NI	Yes
Windows 10, Linux	Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q3/2006	Release date	Q4/2019
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks

Intel Core2 Duo E6600 (63%)

Intel Pentium Silver N5030 (100%)

⌀ Multi core performance in 3 CPU benchmarks

Intel Core2 Duo E6600 (38%)

Intel Pentium Silver N5030 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core2 Duo E6600 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	302 (60%)
	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	500 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core2 Duo E6600 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	513 (38%)
	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	1333 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	Intel Core2 Duo E6600 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	901 (34%)
	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	2639 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core2 Duo E6600 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	60 (66%)
	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	91 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core2 Duo E6600 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	113 (43%)
	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	265 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core2 Duo E6600 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	314 (100%)
	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	0 (0%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core2 Duo E6600 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	579 (100%)
	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	0 (0%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	Intel Core2 Duo E6600 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	458 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	Intel Core2 Duo E6600 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	979 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core2 Duo E6600 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	128 (100%)
	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	0 (0%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core2 Duo E6600 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	241 (100%)
	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	0 (0%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.


	Intel Core2 Duo E6600 @ 0.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 Intel UHD Graphics 605 @ 0.75 GHz	216 (100%)

Blender 3.1 Benchmark

In the Blender Benchmark 3.1, the scenes "monster", "junkshop" and "classroom" are rendered and the time required by the system is measured. In our benchmark we test the CPU and not the graphics card. Blender 3.1 was presented as a standalone version in March 2022.


	Intel Core2 Duo E6600 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	10 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	Intel Core2 Duo E6600 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	392 (100%)
	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 4C 4T @ 1.10 GHz	0 (0%)

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