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Intel Core i5-6600T vs Intel Xeon D-1520

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 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-6600T

Rank 2 - 79 %

Intel Xeon D-1520

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-6600T

Rank 2 - 83 %

Intel Xeon D-1520

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.50 GHz

1,142

4C / 8T · 2.60 GHz

869

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.10 GHz

3,198

4C / 8T · 2.20 GHz

3,088

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

4C / 4T · 3.50 GHz

897

4C / 8T · 2.60 GHz

728

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

4C / 4T · 3.10 GHz

3,111

4C / 8T · 2.20 GHz

2,948

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 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 i5-6600T	Intel Xeon D-1520
Family	Intel Core i5 (336)	Intel Xeon D (79)
CPU group	Intel Core i 6000 (24)	Intel Xeon D-1500 (22)
Architecture	Skylake S	Broadwell
Technology	14 nm	14 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	LGA 1151	BGA 1667
Predecessor
Successor	Intel Core i5-7600T

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6600T	Intel Xeon D-1520
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	4 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	4x
Frequency:	2.70 GHz	2.20 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	3.50 GHz	2.60 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	3.10 GHz	2.20 GHz
L2-Cache		6.00 MB
L3-Cache	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6600T	Intel Xeon D-1520
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 530	no iGPU
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.15 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 i5-6600T	Intel Xeon D-1520
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6600T	Intel Xeon D-1520
Memory	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s) DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	3.0 x 16	3.0 x 32
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s	31.5 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6600T	Intel Xeon D-1520
TDP	35 W	45 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6600T	Intel Xeon D-1520
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	Q4/2015
Release price		216 $
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 i5-6600T is 4.3 stars (4 ratings), while Intel Xeon D-1520 has received 5.0 stars (2 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i5-6600T
4C / 4T · 2.70 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Xeon D-1520
4C / 8T · 2.20 - 2.60 GHz

★★★★★