Intel Core i5-6200U vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

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CPU comparison with benchmarks


Intel Core i5-6200U CPU1 vs CPU2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
Intel Core i5-6200U Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

CPU comparison

Intel Core i5-6200U or Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The Intel Core i5-6200U has 2 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.80 GHz. Up to 32 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The Intel Core i5-6200U was released in Q3/2015.

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.00 GHz. The CPU supports up to 24 GB of memory in 4 memory channels. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 was released in Q1/2024.
Intel Core i5 (331) Family Qualcomm Snapdragon (102)
Intel Core i 6000U (20) CPU group Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (2)
6 Generation 3
Skylake U Architecture --
Mobile Segment Mobile
Intel Core i5-5200U Predecessor --
Intel Core i5-7200U Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i5-6200U has 2 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i5-6200U is 2.30 GHz (2.80 GHz) while the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has 8 CPU cores and 8 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 is at 3.00 GHz.

Intel Core i5-6200U Characteristic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
2 Cores 8
4 Threads 8
normal Core architecture hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
Yes Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? No
2.30 GHz (2.80 GHz) A-Core 3.00 GHz
1x Cortex-X4
-- B-Core 2.80 GHz
4x Cortex-A720
-- C-Core 2.00 GHz
3x Cortex-A520

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

Intel Core i5-6200U Characteristic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
-- AI hardware Qualcomm AI engine
-- AI specifications Hexagon NPU @ 10 TOPS ?

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i5-6200U or Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

Intel HD Graphics 520 GPU Qualcomm Adreno 740
0.30 GHz GPU frequency 0.72 GHz
1.00 GHz GPU (Turbo) --
9 GPU Generation 8
14 nm Technology 4 nm
3 Max. displays 2
24 Compute units --
192 Shader --
No Hardware Raytracing Yes
No Frame Generation No
32 GB Max. GPU Memory 6 GB
12 DirectX Version 12.1

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

Intel HD Graphics 520 GPU Qualcomm Adreno 740
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
Decode Codec VP9 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VP8 Decode / Encode
No Codec AV1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec AVC Decode
Decode Codec VC-1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The Intel Core i5-6200U can use up to 32 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 34.1 GB/s. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 supports up to 24 GB of memory in 4 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 67.0 GB/s.

Intel Core i5-6200U Characteristic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
DDR4-2133 Memory LPDDR5X-8400
32 GB Max. Memory 24 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 4 (Quad Channel)
34.1 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 67.0 GB/s
No ECC No
-- L2 Cache --
3.00 MB L3 Cache 12.00 MB
3.0 PCIe version --
12 PCIe lanes --
11.8 GB/s PCIe Bandwidth --

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the Intel Core i5-6200U is 15 W, while the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has a TDP of 10 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

Intel Core i5-6200U Characteristic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
15 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 10 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. --

Technical details

The Intel Core i5-6200U is manufactured in 14 nm and has 3.00 MB cache. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 is manufactured in 4 nm and has a 12.00 MB cache.

Intel Core i5-6200U Characteristic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
14 nm Technology 4 nm
Monolithic Chip design Chiplet
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) Armv9-A (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 ISA extensions --
BGA 1356 Socket --
VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d Virtualization None
Yes AES-NI No
Windows 10, Linux Operating systems Android, Windows 10/11 (ARM)
Q3/2015 Release date Q1/2024
281 $ Release price --
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iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Intel Core i5-6200U Intel Core i5-6200U
Intel HD Graphics 520 @ 1.00 GHz
384 (21%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
Qualcomm Adreno 740 @ 0.72 GHz
1840 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i5-6200U Intel Core i5-6200U
2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
716 (100%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i5-6200U Intel Core i5-6200U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
1706 (100%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i5-6200U Intel Core i5-6200U
2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
688 (100%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i5-6200U Intel Core i5-6200U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
1346 (100%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Intel Core i5-6200U Intel Core i5-6200U
2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
946 (100%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Intel Core i5-6200U Intel Core i5-6200U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
1867 (100%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i5-6200U Intel Core i5-6200U
2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
282 (100%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i5-6200U Intel Core i5-6200U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
735 (100%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
Intel Core i5-6200U Intel Core i5-6200U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
3009 (100%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.
Intel Core i5-6200U Intel Core i5-6200U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
1878.1 (100%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
0 (0%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Intel Core i5-6200U Intel Core i5-6200U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
252 (100%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
0 (0%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Intel Core i5-6200U Intel Core i5-6200U
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
753 (100%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i5-6200U Intel Core i5-6200U
2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
119 (100%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i5-6200U Intel Core i5-6200U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
290 (100%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Performance for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. The performance is given in the number (trillions) of arithmetic operations per second (TOPS).
Intel Core i5-6200U Intel Core i5-6200U
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
0 (0%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
10 (100%)

Devices using this processor

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