Pentium Silver N6000: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Pentium Silver N6000 is an entry-level Jasper Lake processor from 2021 — a 6-watt part built for inexpensive, quiet laptops, and this guide treats it accordingly. The catalog matches it to 9 models, and it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 0 of the 69 games the site tracks. What follows covers where the chip sits among laptop CPUs, what it brings to a portable, and which laptops carry it.

Where the Pentium Silver N6000 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 9.3 places the chip 523rd of 672 scored laptop CPUs — the bottom quarter of a table that spans two decades of silicon. Every close neighbor is a much older design: the A10-8700P (9.5), Core i5-2450M (9.5) and Core i5-4202Y (9.4) just above, the Core i5-2557M (9.2), Core i5-2430M (8.9) and Core i7-640LM (8.6) just below. Mainstream laptop CPUs of the early 2010s bracket this 2021 part on either side — that is the plainest positioning possible, and it sets the expectations for everything below.

What the chip brings

Jasper Lake is a 4-core, 4-thread design on a 10 nm process, rated at just 6 W: a 1.1 GHz base clock and up to 3.3 GHz boost. Memory support runs to 16 GB of DDR4 across two channels, and integrated Intel UHD Graphics handles display duty. In public benchmarks the chip posts 470 single-core and 1,084 multi-core in Geekbench. The low power draw is the real engineering story — this silicon exists so cheap machines can run cool, quiet and long.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip meets the recommended CPU tier for 0 of the 69 cataloged games — and it falls below the minimum tier for all 69. Even the lightest tracked titles — Minecraft, League of Legends, Civilization 6 — list it under their minimum CPU requirement. These verdicts are CPU-only — whether a game actually plays well depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM — but here the processor alone closes the door before those parts get a say.

Laptops that carry it

The 9-model roster is entry-level throughout: Acer Aspire 1 (A115-32) at $553, Aspire 3 (A315-35) at $399 and Swift 1 (SF114-34) at $739, ASUS Vivobook Go 14 Flip at $666, Lenovo IdeaPad 1 14” (Intel) at $399, Dell's Latitude 3120 2-in-1 at $160, and HP's 250 G8 at $140, 250 G9 at $780 and ProBook Fortis G9 at $202. Used-listing prices span $140 to $780, and the processor is identical in every machine — the spread buys build and screen, not speed. Roster medians describe the laptops, not the chip: office comfort at 95 and energy efficiency at 74.9 fit the light-duty brief, while a gaming index of 64 reflects specific machines' graphics hardware rather than this processor.

Bottom line

The Pentium Silver N6000 is a web-and-documents processor, plainly. At the bottom of the used listings — $140 for the 250 G8, $160 for the Latitude 3120 2-in-1 — it makes sense as a student or secondary machine that runs cool and long. At $553 to $780 the same silicon is asking a lot: 522 CPUs in this catalog outscore it, many in similarly priced laptops. For gaming or sustained CPU work it is not a candidate at any price in this roster.