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MediaTek Dimensity 8200 vs Intel Core i5-6500

Last updated: 2026-06-06

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 %

MediaTek Dimensity 8200

Rank 2 - 97 %

Intel Core i5-6500

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

MediaTek Dimensity 8200

Rank 2 - 89 %

Intel Core i5-6500

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.10 GHz

1,151

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

1,186

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.10 GHz

3,369

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

3,305

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

8C / 8T · 3.10 GHz

987

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

902

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

8C / 8T · 3.10 GHz

3,699

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

2,956

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	MediaTek Dimensity 8200	Intel Core i5-6500
Family	Mediatek Dimensity (38)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	MediaTek Dimensity 8000 4nm (1)	Intel Core i 6000 (24)
Architecture	Cortex-A78 / -A78 / -A55	Skylake S
Technology	4 nm	14 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Desktop
Socket		LGA 1151
Predecessor
Successor		Intel Core i5-7500

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 8200	Intel Core i5-6500
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	1x Cortex-A78 3.10 GHz	4x 3.20 - 3.60 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	3x Cortex-A78 3.00 GHz
Core Cluster 3:	4x Cortex-A55 2.00 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache		6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 8200	Intel Core i5-6500
GPU name	ARM Mali-G610 MP6	Intel HD Graphics 530
GPU frequency		0.35 - 1.05 GHz
CUs / Shader	6 /	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory		32 GB
Technology	4 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q2/2021	Q3/2015

NPU AI performance

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 8200	Intel Core i5-6500
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 8200	Intel Core i5-6500
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (51.2 GB/s)	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory		64 GB
Memory channels	4	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth		15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 8200	Intel Core i5-6500
TDP		65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 8200	Intel Core i5-6500
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	Android	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions		SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q4/2022	Q3/2015
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 MediaTek Dimensity 8200 is 4.3 stars (53 ratings), while Intel Core i5-6500 has received 4.0 stars (106 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

MediaTek Dimensity 8200
8C / 8T · 3.10 GHz

★★★★★

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

★★★★★