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Intel Core i5-6500 vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS

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 - 49 %

Intel Core i5-6500

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 22 %

Intel Core i5-6500

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

56 pts

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

106 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

222 pts

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

975 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

923 pts

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

1,814 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

3,097 pts

8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz

17,200 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

1,186

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

2,617

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

3,305

8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz

12,447

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

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

902

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

1,974

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

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

2,956

8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz

11,600

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 530

403

AMD Radeon 780M

4,357

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

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

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 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

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
Family	Intel Core i5 (336)	AMD Ryzen 9 (43)
CPU group	Intel Core i 6000 (24)	AMD Ryzen 8040 (22)
Architecture	Skylake S	Hawk Point (Zen 4)
Technology	14 nm	4 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1151	FP8
Predecessor		AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
Successor	Intel Core i5-7500	AMD Ryzen AI 9 365

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	8 / 16
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	8x Zen 4
Frequency:	3.20 GHz	4.00 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	3.60 GHz	5.20 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	3.40 GHz
L2-Cache		8.00 MB
L3-Cache	6.00 MB	16.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 530	AMD Radeon 780M
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.05 GHz	0.80 - 2.80 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	12 / 768
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	3	4
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	32 GB
Technology	14 nm	4 nm
Release date	Q3/2015	Q1/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
AI hardware		AMD Ryzen™ AI
AI specifications		AMD Ryzen™ AI (XDNA) @ 16 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
Memory	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s) LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s) DDR5-5600 (89.6 GB/s) DDR5-4800 (76.8 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	256 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16	4.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s	39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
TDP	65 W	45 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		54 W
TDP down		35 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
Release date	Q3/2015	Q1/2024
Release price	250 $
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 i5-6500 is 4.1 stars (108 ratings), while AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS has received 2.3 stars (473 ratings).

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

★★★★★

AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
8C / 16T · 4.00 - 5.20 GHz

★★★★★