AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Core i7 6500U
CPU · Specs Compare
General Parameters
Release Date
Apr 2017
Sep 2015
Manufacturer
AMD
Intel
Type
Desktop
Laptop
Instruction Set
x86-64
x86-64
Core Architecture
Zen
Skylake
Integrated Graphics
N/A
HD Graphics 520
Processor Number
—
i7-6500U
Package
Transistor Count
4.8 billions
1.7 billions
Manufacturing Process
14 nm
14 nm
Socket
AM4
BGA-1356
Power Consumption
65 W
15 W
Peak Operating Temperature
95 °C
100 °C
CPU Performance
Performance Cores
6
2
Performance Core Threads
12
4
Performance Core Base Frequency
3.2 GHz
2.5 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
3.6 GHz
3.1 GHz
Total Core Count
6
2
Total Thread Count
12
4
Bus Frequency
100 MHz
—
Multiplier
32x
—
L1 Cache
96 K per core
64 K per core
L2 Cache
512 K per core
256 K per core
L3 Cache
16 MB shared
4 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier
Yes
No
Memory Parameters
Memory Types
DDR4-2666
DDR4-2133, LPDDR3-1866, DDR3L-1600
Max Memory Size
64 GB
32 GB
Max Memory Channels
2
2
Max Memory Bandwidth
39.74 GB/s
34.1 GB/s
ECC Memory Support
Yes
No
Miscellaneous
PCIe Version
3.0
3.0
PCIe Lanes
20
12
Extended Instruction Set
—
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics
—
true
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency
—
1050 MHz
Benchmark
Cinebench R23
898
719
Cinebench R23
6,168
2,072
Geekbench 6
1,144
1,027
Geekbench 5
924
742
Geekbench 6
5,129
2,074
Geekbench 5
5,065
1,655
Blender
115
22
Passmark CPU
2,060
1,695
Passmark CPU
12,279
3,261
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.