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Intel Core i5-6500 vs Intel Core i5-6300U

Last updated: 2026-06-06

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 - 80 %

Intel Core i5-6300U

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-6500

Rank 2 - 55 %

Intel Core i5-6300U

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

56 pts

2C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

46 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

222 pts

2C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

115 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

923 pts

2C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

777 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

3,097 pts

2C / 4T · 2.60 GHz

1,834 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

1,186

2C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

967

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

3,305

2C / 4T · 2.60 GHz

2,021

Cinebench R20 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

354 cb

2C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

299 cb

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

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

902

2C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

710

Cinebench R20 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

1,299 cb

2C / 4T · 2.60 GHz

739 cb

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

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

2,956

2C / 4T · 2.60 GHz

1,364

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 530

403

Intel HD Graphics 520

365

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

642.1 s

2C / 4T · 2.60 GHz

1,179.4 s

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

383

2C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

272

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.20 GHz

1,453

2C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

811

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

153 cb

2C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

127 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

565 cb

2C / 4T · 2.60 GHz

281 cb

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

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 Core i5-6300U
Family	Intel Core i5 (336)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Intel Core i 6000 (24)	Intel Core i 6000U (20)
Architecture	Skylake S	Skylake U
Technology	14 nm	14 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1151	BGA 1356
Predecessor
Successor	Intel Core i5-7500	Intel Core i5-7300U

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	Intel Core i5-6300U
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	2 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	2x
Frequency:	3.20 GHz	2.40 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	3.60 GHz	3.00 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	3.40 GHz	2.60 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	6.00 MB	3.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	Intel Core i5-6300U
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 530	Intel HD Graphics 520
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.05 GHz	0.35 - 0.95 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	32 GB
Technology	14 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q3/2015	Q3/2015

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	Intel Core i5-6300U
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	Intel Core i5-6300U
Memory	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s)	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s) LPDDR3-1866 (29.9 GB/s) DDR3L-1600 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16	3.0 x 12
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s	11.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	Intel Core i5-6300U
TDP	65 W	15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		25 W
TDP down		7.5 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	Intel Core i5-6300U
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, AVX2
Release date	Q3/2015	Q3/2015
Release price	250 $	281 $
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 4.0 stars (106 ratings), while Intel Core i5-6300U has received 3.6 stars (62 ratings).

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

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-6300U
2C / 4T · 2.40 - 3.00 GHz

★★★★★