Intel Core i5-6600 Benchmark, Test and specs
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The Intel Core i5-6600 has 4 cores with 4 threads and is based on the 6. gen of the Intel Core i5 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the LGA 1151 socket and was released in Q3/2015. The Intel Core i5-6600 scores 966 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 3,167 points.
| Name: | Intel Core i5-6600 |
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| Family: | Intel Core i5 |
| CPU group: | Intel Core i 6000 |
| Architecture: | Skylake S |
| Segment: | Desktop / Server |
| Generation: | 6 |
| Predecessor: | -- |
| Successor: | Intel Core i5-7600 |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
The Intel Core i5-6600 has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i5-6600 is 3.30 GHz (3.90 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.
| CPU Cores / Threads: | 4 / 4 |
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| Core architecture: | normal |
| Cores: | 4x |
| Hyperthreading / SMT: | No |
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| Overclocking: | No |
| Frequency: | 3.30 GHz |
| Turbo Frequency (1 Core): | 3.90 GHz |
| Turbo Frequency (4 Cores): | 3.60 GHz |
Internal Graphics
The Intel Core i5-6600 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i5-6600 uses the Intel HD Graphics 530, which has 192 texture shaders and 24 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.
| GPU name: | Intel HD Graphics 530 |
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| GPU frequency: | 0.35 GHz |
| GPU (Turbo): | 1.15 GHz |
| Compute units: | 24 |
| Shader: | 192 |
| Max. GPU Memory: | 32 GB |
| Max. displays: | 3 |
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| Generation: | 9 |
| Direct X: | 12 |
| Technology: | 14 nm |
| Release date: | Q3/2015 |
Hardware codec support
A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
| h265 / HEVC (8 bit): | Decode / Encode |
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| h265 / HEVC (10 bit): | Decode |
| h264: | Decode / Encode |
| VP8: | Decode / Encode |
| VP9: | Decode |
| AV1: | No |
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| AVC: | Decode / Encode |
| VC-1: | Decode |
| JPEG: | Decode / Encode |
Memory & PCIeThe processor can use up to 64 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 34.1 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system. |
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| Memory type: | Memory bandwidth: |
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| DDR4-2133 DDR3-1600 | 34.1 GB/s 25.6 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 ManagementThe thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 65 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU. |
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| TDP (PL1 / PBP): | 65 W |
| TDP (PL2): | -- |
| TDP up: | -- |
| TDP down: | -- |
| Tjunction max.: | -- |
Technical details
The Intel Core i5-6600 is made in 14 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 6.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.
| Technology: | 14 nm |
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| Chip design: | Monolithic |
| Socket: | LGA 1151 |
| L2-Cache: | -- |
| L3-Cache: | 6.00 MB |
| AES-NI: | Yes |
| Operating systems: | Windows 10, Linux |
| Virtualization: | VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d |
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| Instruction set (ISA): | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions: | SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 |
| Release date: | Q3/2015 |
| Release price: | 250 $ |
| Part Number: | -- |
| Documents: | Technical data sheet |
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Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Core i5-6600 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.
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 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.
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Intel Core i5-10210U
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-1030NG7
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-1005G1
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-6600
4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-6600K
4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 2600
6C 12T @ 3.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-7660U
2C 4T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 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.|
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Intel Core i3-9100
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-4670K
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz |
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AMD FX-8350
8C 8T @ 4.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-6600
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-8100B
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-3770
4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-8100
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz |
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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.
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Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4
16C 32T @ 3.60 GHz |
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AMD EPYC 7452
32C 64T @ 3.35 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-10400T
6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-6600
4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-9500TE
6C 6T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4771
4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz |
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Intel Xeon Gold 5215
10C 20T @ 3.40 GHz |
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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.|
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AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2400G
4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4785T
4C 8T @ 2.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-6600
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Xeon D-1521
4C 8T @ 2.40 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 7 3750H
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz |
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Google Tensor G2
8C 8T @ 2.85 GHz |
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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.|
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Intel Core i5-8269U
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-N300
8C 8T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-N305
8C 8T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-6600
4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz |
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Valve Steam Deck (AMD Custom APU 0405)
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-1000NG4
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Xeon Gold 5220R
24C 48T @ 4.00 GHz |
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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.|
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Intel Core i7-8565U
4C 8T @ 2.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-8260U
4C 8T @ 2.60 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2630 v2
6C 12T @ 2.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-6600
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4850HQ
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2
6C 12T @ 2.30 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz |
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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.|
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AMD EPYC 7302
16C 32T @ 3.30 GHz |
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AMD EPYC 7302P
16C 32T @ 3.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4790
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-6600
4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Xeon Platinum 8270
26C 52T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Xeon Platinum 8274
24C 48T @ 4.00 GHz |
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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.|
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Intel Core i3-8100
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-8705G
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-3770
4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-6600
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-7640X
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-8365U
4C 8T @ 2.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-3770K
4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz |
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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.|
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Intel Core i5-6600K
Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 1.15 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-6700
Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 1.15 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-6700K
Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 1.15 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-6600
Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 1.15 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-10210U
Intel UHD Graphics (Comet Lake) @ 1.10 GHz |
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AMD RX-416GD
AMD Radeon R6 (Merlin Falcon) @ 0.58 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4940MX
Intel HD Graphics 4600 @ 1.35 GHz |
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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.
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Intel Processor N97
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4810MQ
4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-5700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-6600
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-7500
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz |
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MediaTek Dimensity 1100
8C 8T @ 2.60 GHz |
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AMD FX-8350
8C 8T @ 4.10 GHz |
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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.|
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AMD Ryzen 5 1400
4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-6600
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-4690K
4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4710HQ
4C 8T @ 2.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-1065G7
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz |
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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.
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AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 3 2200G
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4810MQ
4C 8T @ 2.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-6600
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-4690
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-7500
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-8100
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz |
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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.|
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AMD Ryzen 3 4300U
4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-8350U
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-8550U
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-6600
4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz |
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Intel Pentium Gold G6400
2C 4T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Xeon W-2123
4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz |
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Intel Xeon W-2133
6C 12T @ 3.90 GHz |
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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.
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AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 1300
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 2400GE
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-6600K
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-6600
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-6685R
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4712MQ
4C 8T @ 2.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-7440HQ
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz |
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Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (SC)
527 entries
527 entries
Cinebench R23 (MC)
504 entries
504 entries
Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,399 entries
2,399 entries
Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,372 entries
2,372 entries
Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,648 entries
1,648 entries
Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,599 entries
1,599 entries
Cinebench R20 (SC)
641 entries
641 entries
Cinebench R20 (MC)
588 entries
588 entries
FP32 SP (iGPU)
1,925 entries
1,925 entries
PassMark CPU-Mark
2,319 entries
2,319 entries
Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries
190 entries
CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
725 entries
725 entries
V-Ray CPU-Render
249 entries
249 entries
Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,102 entries
1,102 entries
Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,097 entries
1,097 entries
Geekbench 3 (SC)
941 entries
941 entries
Geekbench 3 (MC)
937 entries
937 entries
Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
825 entries
825 entries
Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
836 entries
836 entries
Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries
383 entries
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