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Intel Pentium Silver N6000 vs Intel Core i5-6500

Last updated: 2026-07-01

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 67 %

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-6500

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 54 %

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-6500

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

675 pts

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

923 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

1,832 pts

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

3,097 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

571

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

1,186

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

1,238

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

3,305

Cinebench R20 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

279 cb

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

354 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

729

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

902

Cinebench R20 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

774 cb

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

1,299 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

1,875

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

2,956

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel UHD Graphics 32 EUs (Jasper Lake)

456

Intel HD Graphics 530

403

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Pentium Silver N6000	Intel Core i5-6500
Family	Intel Pentium (150)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Intel Pentium N6000 (2)	Intel Core i 6000 (24)
Architecture	Jasper Lake	Skylake S
Technology	10 nm	14 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket	BGA 1338	LGA 1151
Predecessor	Intel Pentium Silver N5000
Successor		Intel Core i5-7500

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Pentium Silver N6000	Intel Core i5-6500
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x Tremont	4x
Frequency:	1.10 GHz	3.20 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	3.30 GHz	3.60 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	2.50 GHz	3.40 GHz
L2-Cache	1.50 MB
L3-Cache	4.00 MB	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Pentium Silver N6000	Intel Core i5-6500
GPU name	Intel UHD Graphics 32 EUs (Jasper Lake)	Intel HD Graphics 530
GPU frequency	0.35 - 0.85 GHz	0.35 - 1.05 GHz
CUs / Shader	32 / 256	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	8 GB	32 GB
Technology	10 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q1/2021	Q3/2015

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Pentium Silver N6000	Intel Core i5-6500
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Pentium Silver N6000	Intel Core i5-6500
Memory	DDR4-2933 (46.9 GB/s)	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 8	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	7.9 GB/s	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Pentium Silver N6000	Intel Core i5-6500
TDP	6 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)	20 W
TDP up
TDP down	4.8 W
T. junction max.	105 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Pentium Silver N6000	Intel Core i5-6500
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q1/2021	Q3/2015
Release price		250 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Pentium Silver N6000 is 3.1 stars (60 ratings), while Intel Core i5-6500 has received 4.0 stars (107 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Pentium Silver N6000
4C / 4T · 1.10 - 3.30 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-6500
4C / 4T · 3.20 - 3.60 GHz

★★★★★