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Intel Core i5-6500 vs Intel Core i7-14700F

Last updated: 2026-07-01

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 43 %

Intel Core i5-6500

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-14700F

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 13 %

Intel Core i5-6500

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-14700F

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

56 pts

20C / 28T · 5.40 GHz

124 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

222 pts

20C / 28T · 5.40 GHz

1,712 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

923 pts

20C / 28T · 5.40 GHz

2,109 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

3,097 pts

20C / 28T · 5.30 GHz

33,441 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

1,186

20C / 28T · 5.40 GHz

2,829

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

3,305

20C / 28T · 5.30 GHz

18,874

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

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

902

20C / 28T · 5.40 GHz

2,113

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

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

2,956

20C / 28T · 5.30 GHz

19,394

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

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	Intel Core i7-14700F
Family	Intel Core i5 (336)	Intel Core i7 (300)
CPU group	Intel Core i 6000 (24)	Intel Core i 14000 (34)
Architecture	Skylake S	Raptor Lake S Refresh
Technology	14 nm	10 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	LGA 1151	LGA 1700
Predecessor		Intel Core i7-13700F
Successor	Intel Core i5-7500

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	Intel Core i7-14700F
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	20 / 28
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x 3.20 - 3.60 GHz	8x Raptor Cove 2.10 - 5.40 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		12x Gracemont 1.50 - 4.20 GHz
L2-Cache		28.00 MB
L3-Cache	6.00 MB	33.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	Intel Core i7-14700F
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 530	no iGPU
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.05 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB
Technology	14 nm
Release date	Q3/2015

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	Intel Core i7-14700F
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	Intel Core i7-14700F
Memory	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s)	DDR5-5600 (89.6 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	192 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	3.0 x 16	5.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s	78.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	Intel Core i7-14700F
TDP	65 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)		219 W
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	Intel Core i7-14700F
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	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX2+
Release date	Q3/2015	Q1/2024
Release price	250 $	359 $
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 i7-14700F has received 4.4 stars (115 ratings).

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

★★★★★

Intel Core i7-14700F
20C / 28T · 2.10 - 5.40 GHz

★★★★★