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Intel Core i5-6400 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8100

Last updated: 2026-06-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 95 %

Intel Core i5-6400

Rank 1 - 100 %

MediaTek Dimensity 8100

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 79 %

Intel Core i5-6400

Rank 1 - 100 %

MediaTek Dimensity 8100

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

1,134

8C / 8T · 2.85 GHz

1,121

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

3,086

8C / 8T · 2.85 GHz

3,521

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

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

841

8C / 8T · 2.85 GHz

941

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

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

2,706

8C / 8T · 2.85 GHz

3,765

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 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

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 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	Intel Core i5-6400	MediaTek Dimensity 8100
Family	Intel Core i5 (336)	Mediatek Dimensity (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i 6000 (24)	MediaTek Dimensity 8000 (4)
Architecture	Skylake S	Cortex-A78 / Cortex-A55
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Segment	Desktop	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	LGA 1151
Predecessor
Successor	Intel Core i5-7400

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6400	MediaTek Dimensity 8100
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x 2.70 - 3.30 GHz	4x Cortex-A78 2.85 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Cortex-A55 2.00 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6400	MediaTek Dimensity 8100
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 530	ARM Mali-G610 MP6
GPU frequency	0.35 - 0.95 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	6 /
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	1
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB
Technology	14 nm	4 nm
Release date	Q3/2015	Q2/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6400	MediaTek Dimensity 8100
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6400	MediaTek Dimensity 8100
Memory	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s) DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	2	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6400	MediaTek Dimensity 8100
TDP	65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6400	MediaTek Dimensity 8100
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Android
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q3/2015	Q1/2022
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i5-6400 is 3.9 stars (31 ratings), while MediaTek Dimensity 8100 has received 4.1 stars (28 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i5-6400
4C / 4T · 2.70 - 3.30 GHz

★★★★★

MediaTek Dimensity 8100
8C / 8T · 2.85 GHz

★★★★★