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AMD A6-3500 vs Intel Core i5-6500

Last updated: 2026-07-02

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 34 %

AMD A6-3500

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-6500

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 31 %

AMD A6-3500

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-6500

Cinebench R20 Single-Core
Single-core performance

3C / 3T · 2.40 GHz

135 cb

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

354 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

3C / 3T · 2.40 GHz

303

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

902

Cinebench R20 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

3C / 3T · 2.40 GHz

368 cb

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

1,299 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

3C / 3T · 2.40 GHz

766

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

2,956

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

AMD Radeon HD 6530D

284

Intel HD Graphics 530

403

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

3C / 3T · 2.40 GHz

166 cb

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

565 cb

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD A6-3500	Intel Core i5-6500
Family	AMD A (112)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	AMD A6-3000 (5)	Intel Core i 6000 (24)
Architecture	Llano (K10)	Skylake S
Technology	32 nm	14 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	FM1	LGA 1151
Predecessor
Successor		Intel Core i5-7500

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD A6-3500	Intel Core i5-6500
CPU Cores / Threads	3 / 3	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	3x	4x
Frequency:	2.10 GHz	3.20 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	2.40 GHz	3.60 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	2.40 GHz	3.40 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	3.00 MB	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD A6-3500	Intel Core i5-6500
GPU name	AMD Radeon HD 6530D	Intel HD Graphics 530
GPU frequency	0.44 GHz	0.35 - 1.05 GHz
CUs / Shader	5 / 320	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	0	3
Max. GPU Memory	1 GB	32 GB
Technology	32 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q4/2010	Q3/2015

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD A6-3500	Intel Core i5-6500
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD A6-3500	Intel Core i5-6500
Memory	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory		64 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth		15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD A6-3500	Intel Core i5-6500
TDP	65 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	AMD A6-3500	Intel Core i5-6500
Chip design	Unknown	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE3, SSE4a	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q3/2011	Q3/2015
Release price	47 $	250 $
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of AMD A6-3500 is 5.0 stars (6 ratings), while Intel Core i5-6500 has received 4.1 stars (110 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD A6-3500
3C / 3T · 2.10 - 2.40 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-6500
4C / 4T · 3.20 - 3.60 GHz

★★★★★