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Intel Core i5-6500 vs Intel Celeron N4000C

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i5-6500
Rank 2 - 40 %
Intel Celeron N4000C
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i5-6500
Rank 2 - 23 %
Intel Celeron N4000C
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Intel Core i5-6500
4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz
1,186
Intel Celeron N4000C
2C / 2T · 2.60 GHz
365
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Intel Core i5-6500
4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz
3,305
Intel Celeron N4000C
2C / 2T · 2.60 GHz
618
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

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

Intel Core i5-6500
4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz
902
Intel Celeron N4000C
2C / 2T · 2.60 GHz
440
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

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

Intel Core i5-6500
4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz
2,956
Intel Celeron N4000C
2C / 2T · 2.60 GHz
755
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel Core i5-6500
Intel HD Graphics 530
403
Intel Celeron N4000C
Intel UHD Graphics 600
125
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

Intel Core i5-6500
4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz
153 cb
Intel Celeron N4000C
2C / 2T · 2.60 GHz
75 cb
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

Intel Core i5-6500
4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz
565 cb
Intel Celeron N4000C
2C / 2T · 2.60 GHz
144 cb

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Intel Core i5-6500Intel Celeron N4000C
FamilyIntel Core i5 (336)Intel Celeron (165)
CPU groupIntel Core i 6000 (24)Intel Celeron J4000/N4000/N5000 (11)
ArchitectureSkylake SGemini Lake
Technology14 nm14 nm
SegmentDesktopNotebook
SocketLGA 1151BGA 1090
Predecessor
SuccessorIntel Core i5-7500

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Intel Core i5-6500Intel Celeron N4000C
CPU Cores / Threads4 / 42 / 2
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturenormalnormal
Cores: 4x 2x
Frequency: 3.20 GHz 1.10 GHz
Turbo (1 Core): 3.60 GHz 2.60 GHz
Turbo (All Cores): 3.40 GHz 2.60 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache6.00 MB4.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Intel Core i5-6500Intel Celeron N4000C
GPU nameIntel HD Graphics 530Intel UHD Graphics 600
GPU frequency0.35 - 1.05 GHz0.20 - 0.65 GHz
CUs / Shader24 / 19212 / 96
Raytracing
Max. displays33
Max. GPU Memory32 GB8 GB
Technology14 nm14 nm
Release dateQ3/2015Q4/2017

NPU AI performance

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Intel Core i5-6500Intel Celeron N4000C
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Intel Core i5-6500Intel Celeron N4000C
MemoryDDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s)
LPDDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)
DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory64 GB8 GB
Memory channels22
ECCNoNo
PCIe3.0 x 162.0 x 6
PCIe Bandwidth15.8 GB/s3.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

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Intel Core i5-6500Intel Celeron N4000C
TDP65 W6 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down4.8 W
T. junction max.105 °C

Technical details

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Intel Core i5-6500Intel Celeron N4000C
Chip designMonolithicMonolithic
AES-NI
Operating systemsWindows 10, LinuxWindows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction setx86-64 (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release dateQ3/2015Q2/2019
Release price250 $
DocumentsTechnical data sheetTechnical data sheet

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Intel Core i5-6500
Intel Core i5-6500
4C / 4T · 3.20 - 3.60 GHz
Intel Celeron N4000C
Intel Celeron N4000C
2C / 2T · 1.10 - 2.60 GHz

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