Intel Pentium Silver N6005 vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Comparative analysis of Intel Pentium Silver N6005 and AMD Athlon Silver 3050U processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Graphics, Graphics interfaces, Graphics image quality, Graphics API support, Compatibility, Peripherals, Security & Reliability, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Pentium Silver N6005

  • Around 3% higher clock speed: 3.30 GHz vs 3.2 GHz
  • Around 11% higher maximum core temperature: 105°C vs 95 °C
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 10 nm vs 14 nm
  • Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 15 Watt
  • Around 4% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1767 vs 1706
  • Around 79% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 5368 vs 3003
Specifications (specs)
Maximum frequency 3.30 GHz vs 3.2 GHz
Maximum core temperature 105°C vs 95 °C
Manufacturing process technology 10 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt vs 15 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 1767 vs 1706
PassMark - CPU mark 5368 vs 3003

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

  • 2x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 16 GB
Maximum memory size 32 GB vs 16 GB

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: Intel Pentium Silver N6005
CPU 2: AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1767
1706
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
5368
3003
Name Intel Pentium Silver N6005 AMD Athlon Silver 3050U
PassMark - Single thread mark 1767 1706
PassMark - CPU mark 5368 3003

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Pentium Silver N6005 AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Essentials

Architecture codename Jasper Lake Zen
Launch date Q1'21 6 Jan 2020
Place in performance rating 1319 1420
Processor Number N6005 3050U
Series Intel Pentium Silver Processor Series
Status Launched
Vertical segment Mobile Mobile
OPN Tray YM3050C4T2OFG

Performance

64 bit support
Base frequency 2.00 GHz 2.3 GHz
L3 cache 4 MB 4 MB
Manufacturing process technology 10 nm 14 nm
Maximum core temperature 105°C 95 °C
Maximum frequency 3.30 GHz 3.2 GHz
L1 cache 192 KB
L2 cache 1 MB
Number of cores 2
Number of GPU cores 2
Number of threads 2
Unlocked

Memory

Max memory channels 2 2
Maximum memory size 16 GB 32 GB
Supported memory frequency 2933 MHz
Supported memory types DDR4 LPDDR4x DDR4-2400
ECC memory support
Maximum memory bandwidth 35.76 GB/s

Graphics

Device ID 0x4E71
Execution Units 32
Graphics base frequency 450 MHz
Graphics max frequency 900 MHz
Intel® Quick Sync Video
Processor graphics Intel UHD Graphics

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
eDP
HDMI
MIPI-DSI
Number of displays supported 3

Graphics image quality

4K resolution support
Max resolution over DisplayPort 4096x2160@60Hz
Max resolution over eDP 4096x2160@60Hz

Graphics API support

DirectX 12 12
OpenGL 4.5 4.6
Vulkan

Compatibility

Max number of CPUs in a configuration 1
Package Size 35mm x 24mm
Sockets supported FCBGA1338 FP5
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt 15 Watt
Configurable TDP 12-25 Watt

Peripherals

Integrated LAN
Integrated Wireless Intel Wireless-AX MAC
Max number of PCIe lanes 8 12
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports 2
Number of USB ports 14
UART
USB revision 2.0/3.2
PCI Express revision 3.0
PCIe configurations 1x8+1x4

Security & Reliability

Intel® Identity Protection technology
Intel® OS Guard
Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX)
Intel® Trusted Execution technology (TXT)
Mode-based Execute Control (MBE)
Secure Boot

Advanced Technologies

Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology
General-Purpose Input/Output (GPIO)
Idle States
Instruction set extensions Intel SSE4.2
Intel 64
Intel® AES New Instructions
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology
Intel® Optane™ Memory Supported
Intel® Smart Response technology
Intel® Turbo Boost technology
Speed Shift technology
Thermal Monitoring

Virtualization

Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)