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Intel Core i5-6500 vs Intel Celeron N2930

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 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-6500

Rank 2 - 19 %

Intel Celeron N2930

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-6500

Rank 2 - 19 %

Intel Celeron N2930

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

1,186

4C / 4T · 2.16 GHz

170

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

3,305

4C / 4T · 2.16 GHz

502

Cinebench R20 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

354 cb

4C / 4T · 2.16 GHz

69 cb

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

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

902

4C / 4T · 2.16 GHz

216

Cinebench R20 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

1,299 cb

4C / 4T · 2.16 GHz

254 cb

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

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

2,956

4C / 4T · 2.16 GHz

719

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 530

403

Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

153 cb

4C / 4T · 2.16 GHz

30 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

565 cb

4C / 4T · 2.16 GHz

113 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	Intel Core i5-6500	Intel Celeron N2930
Family	Intel Core i5 (336)	Intel Celeron (165)
CPU group	Intel Core i 6000 (24)	Intel Celeron J1000/N2000 (17)
Architecture	Skylake S	Bay Trail
Technology	14 nm	22 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1151	BGA 1170
Predecessor
Successor	Intel Core i5-7500

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	Intel Celeron N2930
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	4x
Frequency:	3.20 GHz	1.83 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	3.60 GHz	2.16 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	3.40 GHz	2.16 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	6.00 MB	2.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	Intel Celeron N2930
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 530	Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1)
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.05 GHz	0.31 - 0.85 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	4 / 32
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	2
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	2 GB
Technology	14 nm	22 nm
Release date	Q3/2015	Q3/2013

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	Intel Celeron N2930
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	Intel Celeron N2930
Memory	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s)	DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	8 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16	2.0 x 4
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s	2.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	Intel Celeron N2930
TDP	65 W	7.5 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down		4.5 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	Intel Celeron N2930
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release date	Q3/2015	Q1/2014
Release price	250 $	41 $
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 (112 ratings), while Intel Celeron N2930 has received 3.3 stars (4 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

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

★★★★★

Intel Celeron N2930
4C / 4T · 1.83 - 2.16 GHz

★★★★★