AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

[ VERDICT ] Winner: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 (97/100)

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 leads overall with a score of 97/100 compared to Intel Pentium Silver N6000 (19/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2
AMD

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2

97/100
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Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Intel

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

19/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Efficiency 76.0 Good WINNER 54.0 Below Average
Performance 95.0 Excellent WINNER 21.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Base Frequency (P) 4.3 GHz 1.1 GHz
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
L1 Cache 80K (per core) —
L2 Cache 1MB (per core) 384K (per core)
L3 Cache 192MB (shared) 4MB (shared)
Multiplier 43x 11x
P-Cores 16 4
P-Threads 32 4
Total Cores 16 4
Total Threads 32 4
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5.6 GHz —
Unlocked Multiplier Yes No

Cinebench

Cinebench specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) 10459 —
Cinebench 2026 (Single) 558 —

GeekBench v6

GeekBench v6 specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Background blur 90.2 images/sec 3.57 images/sec
Clang compilation 240.9 Klines/sec 10.4 Klines/sec
File compression 2030 MB/sec 137.1 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 460.9 pages/sec 53.3 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 570.9 Mpixels/sec 44 Mpixels/sec
Photo processing 160.1 images/sec 5.93 images/sec
Ray tracing 56.9 Mpixels/sec 2.67 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 361 pages/sec 110.1 pages/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Codename Zen 5 (Granite Ridge) Jasper Lake
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Integrated GPU Radeon Graphics UHD Graphics 32 EUs
Model number 9950X3D2 N6000
Released March 26, 2026 January 11, 2021
Type Desktop Laptop
Vendor Amd Intel

Memory Support

Memory Support specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Intel Pentium Silver N6000
ECC Support Yes No
Max. Memory Bandwidth 89.6 GB/s —
Max. Memory Size 256 GB 16 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Memory Types - DDR5-5600 - DDR4-2666- LPDDR4x-2933

Misc

Misc specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Official Site AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 official page Intel Pentium Silver N6000 official page
PCI Express Lanes 28 8
PCI Express Version 5.0 3.0

Package

Package specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Fabrication Process 4 nm 10 nm
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 270 W —
Peak Temperature 95°C 105°C
Socket AM5 BGA-1338
TDP (PL1) 200 W 6 W

Performance Per Watt

Performance Per Watt specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Blender / Watt 3.74 PPW 2.96 PPW
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 12.6 PPW 18.5 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 135.6 PPW 204.8 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 363.9 PPW 485 PPW

iGPU

iGPU specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Execution Units 2 32
GPU Base Clock 400 MHz 350 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 2200 MHz 850 MHz
Integrated Graphics Radeon Graphics Intel UHD Graphics 32 EUs
ROPs 4 8
Shading Units 128 256
TGP 15 W 6-10 W
TMUs 8 16

PassMark

PassMark specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Intel Pentium Silver N6000
Data compression — 36 MBytes/sec
Data encryption — 2.2 GBytes/sec
Extended instructions — 1B Matrices/sec
Find prime numbers — 11M Primes/sec
Floating point math — 6.4 GOps/sec
Integer math — 10.9 GOps/sec
Physics — 217 Frames/sec
Random string sorting — 4.9M Strings/sec

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