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Intel Core i5-6500 vs MediaTek Dimensity 6100+

Last updated: 2026-06-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank ?

Intel Core i5-6500

Rank ?

MediaTek Dimensity 6100+

Multi-core performance

Rank ?

Intel Core i5-6500

Rank ?

MediaTek Dimensity 6100+

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 530

403

ARM Mali-G57 MP2

282

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	MediaTek Dimensity 6100+
Family	Intel Core i5 (336)	Mediatek Dimensity (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i 6000 (24)	MediaTek Dimensity 6000 (3)
Architecture	Skylake S	Cortex-A76 / Cortex-A55
Technology	14 nm	7 nm
Segment	Desktop	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	LGA 1151
Predecessor
Successor	Intel Core i5-7500

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	MediaTek Dimensity 6100+
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x 3.20 - 3.60 GHz	2x Cortex-A76 2.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		6x Cortex-A55 2.00 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	MediaTek Dimensity 6100+
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 530	ARM Mali-G57 MP2
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.05 GHz	1.10 - 1.10 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	2 / 32
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	2
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	4 GB
Technology	14 nm	7 nm
Release date	Q3/2015	Q2/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	MediaTek Dimensity 6100+
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	MediaTek Dimensity 6100+
Memory	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (17.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	12 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	MediaTek Dimensity 6100+
TDP	65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6500	MediaTek Dimensity 6100+
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Android
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q3/2015	Q3/2023
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 4.0 stars (105 ratings), while MediaTek Dimensity 6100+ has received 3.8 stars (53 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

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

★★★★★

MediaTek Dimensity 6100+
8C / 8T · 2.20 GHz

★★★★★