Apple M2 Max vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

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We compared two laptop CPUs: Apple M2 Max with 12 cores 3.5GHz and Intel Pentium Silver N6000 with 4 cores 1.1GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Apple M2 Max's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Better graphics card performance

Higher specification of memory (LPDDR5-6400 vs LPDDR4x-2933)

Larger memory bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 46.9GB/s)

Newer PCIe version (4.0 vs 3.0)

Higher base frequency (3.5GHz vs 1.1GHz)

Intel Pentium Silver N6000's Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 30W)

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

Apple M2 Max +116%

1632

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

753

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

Apple M2 Max +633%

14878

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

2028

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple M2 Max +410%

2696

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

528

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple M2 Max +1160%

14905

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

1182

Blender

Apple M2 Max +1081%

260

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

22

Geekbench 5 Single Core

Apple M2 Max +176%

2004

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

726

Geekbench 5 Multi Core

Apple M2 Max +762%

15030

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

1742

Passmark CPU Single Core

Apple M2 Max +192%

4149

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

1417

Passmark CPU Multi Core

Apple M2 Max +737%

26232

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

3132

Apple M2 Max

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Intel Pentium Silver N6000

General Parameters

Jan 2023

Release Date

Jan 2021

Apple

Manufacturer

Intel

Laptop

Type

Laptop

ARMv8

Instruction Set

x86-64

Apple M2

Core Architecture

Jasper Lake

-

Processor Number

N6000

Apple M-Socket

Socket

BGA-1338

Apple M2 Max GPU (38-core)

Integrated Graphics

UHD Graphics 32 EUs

Package

67 billions

Transistor Count

-

5 nm

Manufacturing Process

10 nm

Apple M-Socket

Socket

BGA-1338

30 W

Power Consumption

6 W

100°C

Peak Operating Temperature

105 °C

CPU Performance

8

Performance Cores

4

8

Performance Core Threads

4

3.5 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

1.1 GHz

4

Efficiency Cores

-

4

Efficiency Core Threads

-

2.4 GHz

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

-

12

Total Core Count

4

12

Total Thread Count

4

-

Bus Frequency

100MHz

35x

Multiplier

11x

192K per core

L1 Cache

-

32MB shared

L2 Cache

384K per core

-

L3 Cache

4MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

Memory Parameters

LPDDR5-6400

Memory Types

DDR4-2666, LPDDR4x-2933

96GB

Max Memory Size

16GB

8

Max Memory Channels

2

409.6 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

46.9 GB/s

No

ECC Memory Support

No

Graphics Card Parameters

True

Integrated Graphics

True

450 MHz

GPU Base Frequency

350 MHz

1398 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

850 MHz

4864

Shader Units

256

304

Texture Units

16

152

Raster Operation Units

8

608

Execution Units

32

70 W

Power Consumption

10 W

7680x4320 - 60 Hz

Max Resolution

-

13.6 TFLOPS

Graphics Performance

0.38 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

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Official Website

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

4.0

PCIe Version

3.0

-

PCIe Lanes

8

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