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Intel Pentium Silver N6000 vs Apple M1
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Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance
4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz
Apple M1
100 %
8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz
Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz
Apple M1
100 %
8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz
Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance
4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz
Apple M1
100 %
8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz
Apple M1
100 %
8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance
4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz
Apple M1
100 %
8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz
Apple M1
100 %
8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
Intel UHD Graphics 32 EUs (Jasper Lake)
Apple M1
100 %
Apple M1 (8 Core)
More benchmarks
Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries
218 entries
Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries
219 entries
Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries
427 entries
Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries
422 entries
Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries
690 entries
Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries
665 entries
Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries
1,989 entries
Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries
1,927 entries
Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries
666 entries
Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries
2,512 entries
Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries
615 entries
Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries
2,483 entries
FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries
2,219 entries
3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries
534 entries
Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries
213 entries
PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries
2,504 entries
Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries
190 entries
V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries
251 entries
CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries
140 entries
AI performance (NPU)
218 entries
218 entries
Specifications
At a glance
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Wischen
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Intel Pentium Silver N6000 | Apple M1 |
|---|---|---|
| Family | Intel Pentium (150) | Apple M series (38) |
| CPU group | Intel Pentium N6000 (2) | Apple M1 (9) |
| Architecture | Jasper Lake | M1 |
| Technology | 10 nm | 5 nm |
| Segment | Notebook | Notebook |
| Socket | BGA 1338 | |
| Predecessor | Intel Pentium Silver N5000 | |
| Successor | Apple M2 |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
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Wischen
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Intel Pentium Silver N6000 | Apple M1 |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores / Threads | 4 / 4 | 8 / 8 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✗ | ✗ |
| Core architecture | normal | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| Core Cluster 1: | 4x Tremont 1.10 - 3.30 GHz |
4x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz |
|
| L2-Cache | 1.50 MB | 16.00 MB |
| L3-Cache | 4.00 MB | |
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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Wischen
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Intel Pentium Silver N6000 | Apple M1 |
|---|---|---|
| GPU name | Intel UHD Graphics 32 EUs (Jasper Lake) | Apple M1 (8 Core) |
| GPU frequency | 0.35 - 0.85 GHz | 0.39 - 1.30 GHz |
| CUs / Shader | 32 / 256 | 128 / 1024 |
| Raytracing | ✗ | ✗ |
| Max. displays | 3 | 2 |
| Max. GPU Memory | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| Technology | 10 nm | 5 nm |
| Release date | Q1/2021 | Q4/2020 |
NPU AI performance
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Wischen
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Intel Pentium Silver N6000 | Apple M1 |
|---|---|---|
| AI hardware | Apple Neural Engine | |
| AI specifications | 16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS | |
| NPU + CPU + iGPU |
Memory & PCIe
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Wischen
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Intel Pentium Silver N6000 | Apple M1 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | DDR4-2933 (46.9 GB/s) | LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 16 GB | 16 GB |
| Memory channels | 2 | 2 |
| ECC | No | No |
| PCIe | 3.0 x 8 | 4.0 |
| PCIe Bandwidth | 7.9 GB/s |
Thermal Management
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Wischen
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Intel Pentium Silver N6000 | Apple M1 |
|---|---|---|
| TDP | 6 W | 18 W |
| TDP (PL2) | 20 W | |
| TDP up | 20 W | |
| TDP down | 4.8 W | 10 W |
| T. junction max. | 105 °C |
Technical details
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Wischen
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Intel Pentium Silver N6000 | Apple M1 |
|---|---|---|
| Chip design | Monolithic | Monolithic |
| AES-NI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Operating systems | Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux | macOS |
| Instruction set | x86-64 (64 bit) | Armv8.5-A (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions | SSE4.1, SSE4.2 | Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation |
| Release date | Q1/2021 | Q4/2020 |
| Release price | ||
| Documents | Technical data sheet |
User Reviews
Your rating
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Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
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Apple M1
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Intel Pentium Silver N6000
4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz
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