Intel Core i5-6300HQ Benchmark, Test and specs

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The Intel Core i5-6300HQ was released in Q3/2015 and has 4 cores. The processor can process 4 threads simultaneously and uses a mainboard with the socket BGA 1440. In the Geekbench 5 benchmark, the Intel Core i5-6300HQ achieved a result of 749 points (single-core) or 2,523 points (multi-core).
Intel Core i5-6300HQ

CPU lineage

In this classification you can see to which group of processors the Intel Core i5-6300HQ belongs. We also show the direct predecessor and successor of Intel Core i5-6300HQ.

Name: Intel Core i5-6300HQ
Family: Intel Core i5 (328)
CPU group: Intel Core i 6000H (15)
Architecture: Skylake H
Segment: Mobile
Generation: 6
Predecessor: --
Successor: Intel Core i5-7300HQ

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i5-6300HQ has 4 cores. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i5-6300HQ is 2.30 GHz (3.20 GHz). An initial performance assessment can be made using the number of CPU cores.

CPU Cores / Threads: 4 / 4
Core architecture: normal
Cores: 4x
Hyperthreading / SMT: No
Overclocking: No
Frequency: 2.30 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core): 3.20 GHz
Turbo Frequency (4 Cores): 2.70 GHz

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i5-6300HQ has an integrated graphics that the system can use to efficiently play back videos. The Intel Core i5-6300HQ has the Intel HD Graphics 530 installed, which has 24 streaming multiprocessors (192 shaders).

GPU name: Intel HD Graphics 530
GPU frequency: 0.35 GHz
GPU (Turbo): 0.95 GHz
Compute units: 24
Shader: 192
Hardware Raytracing: No
Release date: Q3/2015
Max. displays: 3
Generation: 9
Direct X: 12
Technology: 14 nm
Max. GPU Memory: 32 GB
Frame Generation: No

Hardware codec support

Processors with integrated graphics can process video codecs faster. Support for modern codecs can significantly increase system efficiency during video playback.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit): Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit): Decode
h264: Decode / Encode
VP8: Decode / Encode
VP9: Decode
AV1: No
AVC: Decode / Encode
VC-1: Decode
JPEG: Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The Intel Core i5-6300HQ supports a maximum of 64 GB memory. Depending on the mainboard, the processor can use a maximum of 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. This results in a maximum bandwidth of the main memory of 34.1 GB/s.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:
DDR4-2133
34.1 GB/s
Max. Memory: 64 GB
Memory channels: 2 (Dual Channel)
ECC: No
PCIe: 3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth: 15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

The Intel Core i5-6300HQ has a TDP of 45 W. Based on the TDP, the system manufacturer can and must adapt the cooling solution to the processor.

TDP (PL1 / PBP): 45 W
TDP (PL2): --
TDP up: --
TDP down: --
Tjunction max.: --

Technical details

Modern production reduces the waste heat of a processor and increases its efficiency. The Intel Core i5-6300HQ is made in 14 nm and has 6.00 MB cache.

Technology: 14 nm
Chip design: Monolithic
Socket: BGA 1440
L2-Cache: --
L3-Cache: 6.00 MB
AES-NI: Yes
Operating systems: Windows 10, Linux
Virtualization: VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Instruction set (ISA): x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions: SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date: Q3/2015
Release price: --
Part Number: --
Documents: Technical data sheet

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Benchmark results

Verified Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Core i5-6300HQ have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.


Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i7-4722HQ Intel Core i7-4722HQ
4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz
751
Intel Core i5-3380M Intel Core i5-3380M
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
750
Intel Core i7-4700EQ Intel Core i7-4700EQ
4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz
750
Intel Core i5-6300HQ Intel Core i5-6300HQ
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
749
Intel Core i5-3450 Intel Core i5-3450
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
749
Intel Core i5-6350HQ Intel Core i5-6350HQ
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
749
AMD Athlon Silver 3050U AMD Athlon Silver 3050U
2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz
749

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i5-3550S Intel Core i5-3550S
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
2528
AMD Ryzen 5 2500U AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
2524
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U
4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
2524
Intel Core i5-6300HQ Intel Core i5-6300HQ
4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
2523
Intel Core i5-6350HQ Intel Core i5-6350HQ
4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
2523
HiSilicon Kirin 985 5G HiSilicon Kirin 985 5G
8C 8T @ 2.58 GHz
2517
Intel Core i7-4702HQ Intel Core i7-4702HQ
4C 8T @ 2.90 GHz
2508

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Intel Xeon E5-2623 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2623 v3
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz
1048
Intel Core i7-5557U Intel Core i7-5557U
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
1047
Intel Xeon Gold 5120 Intel Xeon Gold 5120
14C 28T @ 3.20 GHz
1047
Intel Core i5-6300HQ Intel Core i5-6300HQ
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
1046
Intel Core i5-6350HQ Intel Core i5-6350HQ
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
1046
Intel Core i3-4130 Intel Core i3-4130
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
1046
Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
1045

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Intel Core i5-4440S Intel Core i5-4440S
4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
2806
Intel Celeron G6900E Intel Celeron G6900E
2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz
2804
Intel Core i7-4820K Intel Core i7-4820K
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
2803
Intel Core i5-6300HQ Intel Core i5-6300HQ
4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
2788
Intel Core i5-6350HQ Intel Core i5-6350HQ
4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
2788
Samsung Exynos 1380 Samsung Exynos 1380
8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz
2778
HiSilicon Kirin 980 HiSilicon Kirin 980
8C 8T @ 2.60 GHz
2778

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i3-8100T Intel Core i3-8100T
4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
320
Intel Core i5-4690T Intel Core i5-4690T
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
320
Intel Core i5-4590 Intel Core i5-4590
4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
319
Intel Core i5-6300HQ Intel Core i5-6300HQ
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
318
Intel Celeron G5900TE Intel Celeron G5900TE
2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz
318
AMD EPYC 7451 AMD EPYC 7451
24C 48T @ 3.20 GHz
317
AMD Ryzen 3 3250U AMD Ryzen 3 3250U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
309

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD Ryzen 3 2300U AMD Ryzen 3 2300U
4C 4T @ 2.00 GHz
1008
Intel Core i7-2820QM Intel Core i7-2820QM
4C 8T @ 2.30 GHz
1001
AMD FX-8320E AMD FX-8320E
8C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
999
Intel Core i5-6300HQ Intel Core i5-6300HQ
4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
986
Intel Core i3-1005G1 Intel Core i3-1005G1
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
949
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U
4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz
935
AMD Ryzen 7 2700U AMD Ryzen 7 2700U
4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz
935

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Intel Core i3-4130 Intel Core i3-4130
Intel HD Graphics 4400 @ 1.15 GHz
368
Intel Core i3-4330 Intel Core i3-4330
Intel HD Graphics 4600 @ 1.15 GHz
368
Intel Core i3-4340 Intel Core i3-4340
Intel HD Graphics 4600 @ 1.15 GHz
368
Intel Core i5-6300HQ Intel Core i5-6300HQ
Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 0.95 GHz
365
MediaTek Dimensity 800U MediaTek Dimensity 800U
ARM Mali-G57 MP3 @ 0.95 GHz
365
MediaTek Dimensity 800 MediaTek Dimensity 800
ARM Mali-G57 MP3 @ 0.95 GHz
365
Intel Core i3-6102E Intel Core i3-6102E
Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 0.95 GHz
365

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
AMD A10-6790K AMD A10-6790K
4C 4T @ 4.30 GHz
4724
AMD FX-4300 AMD FX-4300
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
4713
Intel Xeon E5-2603 v4 Intel Xeon E5-2603 v4
6C 6T @ 1.70 GHz
4699
Intel Core i5-6300HQ Intel Core i5-6300HQ
4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
4692
Intel Core i5-6350HQ Intel Core i5-6350HQ
4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
4692
AMD A10-5800K AMD A10-5800K
4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz
4683
AMD A8-7670K AMD A8-7670K
4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
4682

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.
AMD Ryzen 3 2200G AMD Ryzen 3 2200G
4C 4T @ 3.65 GHz
701.4
Intel Core i5-8250U Intel Core i5-8250U
4C 8T @ 2.30 GHz
705.3
Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3 Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
707.1
Intel Core i5-6300HQ Intel Core i5-6300HQ
4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
720.4
Intel Core i7-4712MQ Intel Core i7-4712MQ
4C 8T @ 2.30 GHz
722.5
AMD Ryzen 7 3700U AMD Ryzen 7 3700U
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz
723.7
Intel Core i5-6400 Intel Core i5-6400
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
730

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
AMD FX-8320E AMD FX-8320E
8C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
1235
Intel Core i5-2400 Intel Core i5-2400
4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
1230
Intel Core i7-2720QM Intel Core i7-2720QM
4C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
1229
Intel Core i5-6300HQ Intel Core i5-6300HQ
4C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
1225
Intel Xeon X3440 Intel Xeon X3440
4C 8T @ 2.53 GHz
1219
Intel Core i7-2630QM Intel Core i7-2630QM
4C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
1212
Intel Core i7-2670QM Intel Core i7-2670QM
4C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
1201

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i5-4330M Intel Core i5-4330M
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
134
Intel Pentium G3450 Intel Pentium G3450
2C 2T @ 3.40 GHz
133
Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4 Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4
14C 28T @ 3.20 GHz
133
Intel Core i5-6300HQ Intel Core i5-6300HQ
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
132
AMD Ryzen 5 2400GE AMD Ryzen 5 2400GE
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz
132
Intel Core i5-8210Y Intel Core i5-8210Y
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
132
Intel Core i3-8100T Intel Core i3-8100T
4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
132

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i5-4460 Intel Core i5-4460
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
477
Intel Core i5-4590S Intel Core i5-4590S
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
477
Intel Core i5-7400T Intel Core i5-7400T
4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
476
Intel Core i5-6300HQ Intel Core i5-6300HQ
4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
475
AMD Phenom II X6 1075T AMD Phenom II X6 1075T
6C 6T @ 3.50 GHz
474
Intel Core i5-6500T Intel Core i5-6500T
4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
464
Intel Core i5-4570S Intel Core i5-4570S
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
462

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