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Intel Core Ultra 7 265K vs Intel Core i5-6500

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 1 - 100 %

Intel Core Ultra 7 265K

Rank 2 - 40 %

Intel Core i5-6500

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core Ultra 7 265K

Rank 2 - 11 %

Intel Core i5-6500

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

20C / 20T · 5.50 GHz

139 pts

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

56 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

20C / 20T · 5.50 GHz

2,047 pts

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

222 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

20C / 20T · 5.50 GHz

2,261 pts

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

923 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

20C / 20T · 5.20 GHz

35,315 pts

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

3,097 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

20C / 20T · 5.50 GHz

3,210

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

1,186

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

20C / 20T · 5.20 GHz

21,640

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

3,305

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel Xe 4 Core Graphics 64 EUs (Arrow Lake)

1,989

Intel HD Graphics 530

403

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

20C / 20T · 5.50 GHz

919

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

383

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

20C / 20T · 3.90 GHz

16,275

4C / 4T · 3.20 GHz

1,453

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

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 265K	Intel Core i5-6500
Family	Intel Core Ultra 7 (31)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Intel Core Ultra 200 AL-S (20)	Intel Core i 6000 (24)
Architecture	Arrow Lake	Skylake S
Technology	3 nm	14 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	LGA 1851	LGA 1151
Predecessor
Successor		Intel Core i5-7500

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 265K	Intel Core i5-6500
CPU Cores / Threads	20 / 20	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	8x Lion Cove 3.90 - 5.50 GHz	4x 3.20 - 3.60 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	12x Skymont 3.30 - 4.60 GHz
L2-Cache	36.00 MB
L3-Cache	30.00 MB	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 265K	Intel Core i5-6500
GPU name	Intel Xe 4 Core Graphics 64 EUs (Arrow Lake)	Intel HD Graphics 530
GPU frequency	0.30 - 2.00 GHz	0.35 - 1.05 GHz
CUs / Shader	4 / 512	24 / 192
Raytracing	✓	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	32 GB
Technology	5 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q3/2024	Q3/2015

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 265K	Intel Core i5-6500
AI hardware	Intel® AI Boost
AI specifications	Intel AI Boost NPU 4 @ 13 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU	37 TOPS

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 265K	Intel Core i5-6500
Memory	DDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	256 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	5.0 x 20	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	78.8 GB/s	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 265K	Intel Core i5-6500
TDP	125 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)	177 W
TDP up	250 W
TDP down
T. junction max.	105 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 265K	Intel Core i5-6500
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 11, 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	Q4/2024	Q3/2015
Release price	394 $	250 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

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Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core Ultra 7 265K is 4.3 stars (266 ratings), while Intel Core i5-6500 has received 4.0 stars (106 ratings).

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Intel Core Ultra 7 265K
20C / 20T · 3.90 - 5.50 GHz

★★★★★

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

★★★★★