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Intel Pentium G4520 vs Intel Core i5-6500

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 2 - 84 %
Intel Pentium G4520
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i5-6500
Multi-core performance
Rank 2 - 51 %
Intel Pentium G4520
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i5-6500
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Intel Pentium G4520
2C / 2T · 3.60 GHz
795
Intel Core i5-6500
4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz
1,186
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Intel Pentium G4520
2C / 2T · 3.60 GHz
1,360
Intel Core i5-6500
4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz
3,305
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

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

Intel Pentium G4520
2C / 2T · 3.60 GHz
921
Intel Core i5-6500
4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz
902
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

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

Intel Pentium G4520
2C / 2T · 3.60 GHz
1,757
Intel Core i5-6500
4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz
2,956
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel Pentium G4520
Intel HD Graphics 530
403
Intel Core i5-6500
Intel HD Graphics 530
403
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

Intel Pentium G4520
2C / 2T · 3.60 GHz
153 cb
Intel Core i5-6500
4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz
153 cb
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

Intel Pentium G4520
2C / 2T · 3.60 GHz
274 cb
Intel Core i5-6500
4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz
565 cb

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Intel Pentium G4520Intel Core i5-6500
FamilyIntel Pentium (150)Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU groupIntel Pentium G4000 (5)Intel Core i 6000 (24)
ArchitectureSkylake SSkylake S
Technology14 nm14 nm
SegmentDesktopDesktop
SocketLGA 1151LGA 1151
Predecessor
SuccessorIntel Core i5-7500

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Intel Pentium G4520Intel Core i5-6500
CPU Cores / Threads2 / 24 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturenormalnormal
Cores: 2x 4x
Frequency: 3.60 GHz 3.20 GHz
Turbo (1 Core): 3.60 GHz
Turbo (All Cores): 3.40 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache3.00 MB6.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Intel Pentium G4520Intel Core i5-6500
GPU nameIntel HD Graphics 530Intel HD Graphics 530
GPU frequency0.35 - 1.05 GHz0.35 - 1.05 GHz
CUs / Shader24 / 19224 / 192
Raytracing
Max. displays33
Max. GPU Memory32 GB32 GB
Technology14 nm14 nm
Release dateQ3/2015Q3/2015

NPU AI performance

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Intel Pentium G4520Intel Core i5-6500
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Intel Pentium G4520Intel Core i5-6500
MemoryDDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s)
DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory64 GB64 GB
Memory channels22
ECCYesNo
PCIe3.0 x 163.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth15.8 GB/s15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

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Intel Pentium G4520Intel Core i5-6500
TDP51 W65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

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Intel Pentium G4520Intel Core i5-6500
Chip designMonolithicMonolithic
AES-NI
Operating systemsWindows 10, LinuxWindows 10, Linux
Instruction setx86-64 (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4.1, SSE4.2SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release dateQ3/2015Q3/2015
Release price250 $
DocumentsTechnical data sheetTechnical data sheet

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Intel Pentium G4520
Intel Pentium G4520
2C / 2T · 3.60 GHz
Intel Core i5-6500
Intel Core i5-6500
4C / 4T · 3.20 - 3.60 GHz

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