Intel Xeon 6960E+ vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

CPU · Specs Compare

CPU Intel Xeon 6960E+ Intel · 2026-05

CPU Intel Pentium Silver N6000 Intel · 2021-01

General Parameters

Release Date

May 2026

Jan 2021

Manufacturer

Intel

Intel

Type

Server

Laptop

Core Architecture

Clearwater Forest

Jasper Lake

Integrated Graphics

N/A

UHD Graphics 32 EUs

Generation

Xeon 6+ (Clearwater Forest-SP)

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Instruction Set

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x86-64

Processor Number

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N6000

Package

Manufacturing Process

3 nm

10 nm

Socket

Intel Socket 7529

BGA-1338

Power Consumption

330 W

6 W

Peak Operating Temperature

98°C

105 °C

Foundry

Intel

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I/O Process Size

10 nm

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I/O Die Size

2x 241

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Package

FC-LGA18N

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CPU Performance

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.4 GHz

1.1 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.2 GHz

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Total Core Count

144

4

Total Thread Count

144

4

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

100 MHz

Multiplier

24.0

11x

L1 Cache

96 KB per core

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L2 Cache

4 MB per module

384 K per core

L3 Cache

432 MB shared

4 MB shared

Unlocked Multiplier

No

No

SMP

2

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Performance Cores

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4

Performance Core Threads

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4

Memory Parameters

Memory Types

DDR5-8000

DDR4-2666, LPDDR4x-2933

Max Memory Size

1.5 TB

16 GB

Max Memory Channels

12

2

Max Memory Bandwidth

768.0 GB/s

46.9 GB/s

ECC Memory Support

Yes

No

Miscellaneous

PCIe Version

5

3.0

PCIe Lanes

96

8

Official Website

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Graphics Card Parameters

Integrated Graphics

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true

GPU Base Frequency

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350 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

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850 MHz

Shader Units

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256

Texture Units

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16

Raster Operation Units

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8

Execution Units

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32

Power Consumption

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10 W

Benchmark

Cinebench R23

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752

Cinebench R23

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2,028

Geekbench 6

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528

Geekbench 5

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726

Geekbench 6

—

1,182

Geekbench 5

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1,742

Blender

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22

Passmark CPU

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1,417

Passmark CPU

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3,132

▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.