Intel Pentium Silver N6000 vs Apple A11 Bionic Benchmark, comparison and differences


Intel Pentium Silver N6000		Apple A11 Bionic
CPU comparison Intel Pentium Silver N6000 or Apple A11 Bionic - 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 Pentium Silver N6000 has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.30 GHz. Up to 16 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The Intel Pentium Silver N6000 was released in Q1/2021. The Apple A11 Bionic has 6 cores with 6 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.39 GHz. The CPU supports up to 3 GB of memory in 1 memory channels. The Apple A11 Bionic was released in Q3/2017.

Intel Pentium (150)	Family	Apple A series (22)
Intel Pentium N6000 (2)	CPU group	Apple A11 (1)
10	Generation	11
Jasper Lake	Architecture	A11
Mobile	Segment	Mobile
Intel Pentium Silver N5000	Predecessor	Apple A10 Fusion
--	Successor	Apple A12 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency The Intel Pentium Silver N6000 has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Pentium Silver N6000 is 1.10 GHz (3.30 GHz) while the Apple A11 Bionic has 6 CPU cores and 6 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Apple A11 Bionic is at 2.39 GHz.
Intel Pentium Silver N6000	Characteristic	Apple A11 Bionic
4	Cores	6
4	Threads	6
normal	Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
No	Hyperthreading	No
No	Overclocking ?	No
1.10 GHz (3.30 GHz) 4x Tremont	A-Core	2.39 GHz 2x Monsoon
--	B-Core	1.19 GHz 4x Mistral
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 Pentium Silver N6000	Characteristic	Apple A11 Bionic
--	AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
--	AI specifications	2 Neural cores @ 0.6 TOPS

Internal Graphics The Intel Pentium Silver N6000 or Apple A11 Bionic has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.
Intel UHD Graphics 32 EUs (Jasper Lake)	GPU	Apple A11
0.35 GHz	GPU frequency	1.07 GHz
0.85 GHz	GPU (Turbo)	--
11	GPU Generation	8
10 nm	Technology	10 nm
3	Max. displays	1
32	Compute units	12
256	Shader	192
No	Hardware Raytracing	No
No	Frame Generation	No
8 GB	Max. GPU Memory	3 GB
12	DirectX Version	--

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.
Intel UHD Graphics 32 EUs (Jasper Lake)	GPU	Apple A11
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	Decode
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	Decode
Decode / Encode	Codec h264	Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode	Codec VP9	Decode
Decode / Encode	Codec VP8	Decode / Encode
No	Codec AV1	No
Decode / Encode	Codec AVC	Decode
Decode	Codec VC-1	Decode
Decode / Encode	Codec JPEG	Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe The Intel Pentium Silver N6000 can use up to 16 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 46.9 GB/s. The Apple A11 Bionic supports up to 3 GB of memory in 1 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 34.1 GB/s.
Intel Pentium Silver N6000	Characteristic	Apple A11 Bionic
DDR4-2933	Memory	LPDDR4X-4266
16 GB	Max. Memory	3 GB
2 (Dual Channel)	Memory channels	1 (Single Channel)
46.9 GB/s	Max. Bandwidth	34.1 GB/s
No	ECC	No
1.50 MB	L2 Cache	8.00 MB
4.00 MB	L3 Cache	--
3.0	PCIe version	--
8	PCIe lanes	--
7.9 GB/s	PCIe Bandwidth	--
Thermal Management The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the Intel Pentium Silver N6000 is 6 W, while the Apple A11 Bionic has a TDP of 8 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.
Intel Pentium Silver N6000	Characteristic	Apple A11 Bionic
6 W	TDP (PL1 / PBP)	8 W
20 W	TDP (PL2)	--
--	TDP up	--
4.8 W	TDP down	--
105 °C	Tjunction max.	--
Technical details The Intel Pentium Silver N6000 is manufactured in 10 nm and has 5.50 MB cache. The Apple A11 Bionic is manufactured in 10 nm and has a 8.00 MB cache.
Intel Pentium Silver N6000	Characteristic	Apple A11 Bionic
10 nm	Technology	10 nm
Monolithic	Chip design	Chiplet
x86-64 (64 bit)	Instruction set (ISA)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2	ISA extensions	--
BGA 1338	Socket	--
VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d	Virtualization	None
Yes	AES-NI	No
Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	Operating systems	iOS
Q1/2021	Release date	Q3/2017
--	Release price	--

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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks

Intel Pentium Silver N6000 (65%)

Apple A11 Bionic (100%)

⌀ Multi core performance in 3 CPU benchmarks

Intel Pentium Silver N6000 (69%)

Apple A11 Bionic (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 Pentium Silver N6000 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	729 (78%)
	Apple A11 Bionic 6C 6T @ 2.39 GHz	932 (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 Pentium Silver N6000 4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	1875 (73%)
	Apple A11 Bionic 6C 6T @ 2.39 GHz	2569 (100%)

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 Pentium Silver N6000 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	571 (52%)
	Apple A11 Bionic 6C 6T @ 2.39 GHz	1093 (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 Pentium Silver N6000 4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	1238 (62%)
	Apple A11 Bionic 6C 6T @ 2.39 GHz	1997 (100%)

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 Pentium Silver N6000 Intel UHD Graphics 32 EUs (Jasper Lake) @ 0.85 GHz	456 (100%)
	Apple A11 Bionic Apple A11 @ 1.07 GHz	409 (90%)

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 Pentium Silver N6000 4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	3134 (72%)
	Apple A11 Bionic 6C 6T @ 2.39 GHz	4360 (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 Pentium Silver N6000 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	675 (100%)
	Apple A11 Bionic 6C 6T @ 2.39 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 Pentium Silver N6000 4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	1832 (100%)
	Apple A11 Bionic 6C 6T @ 2.39 GHz	0 (0%)

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 Pentium Silver N6000 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	279 (100%)
	Apple A11 Bionic 6C 6T @ 2.39 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 Pentium Silver N6000 4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	774 (100%)
	Apple A11 Bionic 6C 6T @ 2.39 GHz	0 (0%)

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark

The AnTuTu 8 Benchmark measures the performance of a SoC. AnTuTu benchmarks the CPU, GPU, Memory as well as the UX (User Experience) by simulating browser and app usage. AnTuTu can benchmark any ARM CPU that runs under Android or iOS. Devices may not be directly compareable if the benchmark has been performed under different operating systems.

In the AnTuTu 8 benchmark, the single-core performance of a processor is only slightly weighted. The evaluation consists of the multi-core performance of the processor, the speed of the RAM and the performance of the internal graphics.


	Intel Pentium Silver N6000 4C 4T @ 1.10 GHz	0 (0%)
	Apple A11 Bionic 6C 6T @ 2.39 GHz	295465 (100%)

Performance for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)

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. The performance is given in the number (trillions) of arithmetic operations per second (TOPS).


	Intel Pentium Silver N6000 4C 4T @ 1.10 GHz	0 (0%)
	Apple A11 Bionic 6C 6T @ 2.39 GHz	0.6 (100%)

Devices using this processor
Intel Pentium Silver N6000	Apple A11 Bionic
Unknown	Apple iPhone 8 Apple iPhone 8 Plus Apple iPhone X


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CPU comparison with benchmarks

CPU comparison

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Internal Graphics

Hardware codec support

Memory & PCIe

Thermal Management

Technical details