Intel Core i7-5600U Benchmark, Test and specs

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The Intel Core i7-5600U has 2 cores with 4 threads and is based on the 5. gen of the Intel Core i7 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the BGA 1168 socket and was released in Q1/2015. The Intel Core i7-5600U scores 699 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 1,796 points.
Intel Core i7-5600U

CPU lineage

The segment in which we have classified the Intel Core i7-5600U. Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the Intel Core i7-5600U.

Name: Intel Core i7-5600U
Family: Intel Core i7 (293)
CPU group: Intel Core i 5000U (16)
Architecture: Broadwell U
Segment: Mobile
Generation: 5
Predecessor: --
Successor: Intel Core i7-6600U

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i7-5600U has 2 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i7-5600U is 2.60 GHz (3.20 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads: 2 / 4
Core architecture: normal
Cores: 2x
Hyperthreading / SMT: Yes
Overclocking: No
Frequency: 2.60 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core): 3.20 GHz
Turbo Frequency (2 Cores): 3.10 GHz

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i7-5600U has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i7-5600U uses the Intel HD Graphics 5500, 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 5500
GPU frequency: 0.30 GHz
GPU (Turbo): 0.95 GHz
Compute units: 24
Shader: 192
Hardware Raytracing: No
Release date: Q1/2015
Max. displays: 3
Generation: 8
Direct X: 11.2
Technology: 14 nm
Max. GPU Memory: 16 GB
Frame Generation: No

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

Memory & PCIe

The processor can use up to 16 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 25.6 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:
DDR3-1600
25.6 GB/s
Max. Memory: 16 GB
Memory channels: 2 (Dual Channel)
ECC: No
PCIe: 2.0 x 12
PCIe Bandwidth: 6.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 15 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.

TDP (PL1 / PBP): 15 W
TDP (PL2): --
TDP up: --
TDP down: --
Tjunction max.: --

Technical details

The Intel Core i7-5600U 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 4.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology: 14 nm
Chip design: Monolithic
Socket: BGA 1168
L2-Cache: --
L3-Cache: 4.00 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: Q1/2015
Release price: --
Part Number: --
Documents: Technical data sheet

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Benchmark results

Verified Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Core i7-5600U 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.
AMD Athlon Silver 3050e AMD Athlon Silver 3050e
2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
701
Intel Core i5-2320 Intel Core i5-2320
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
701
Intel Core i7-2920XM Intel Core i7-2920XM
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz
701
Intel Core i7-5600U Intel Core i7-5600U
2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
699
Intel Core i7-3632QM Intel Core i7-3632QM
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
699
Intel Core i5-6260U Intel Core i5-6260U
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz
698
Intel Core m5-6Y54 Intel Core m5-6Y54
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
698

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 Pentium Gold G5500T Intel Pentium Gold G5500T
2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
1810
Intel Core i5-4210H Intel Core i5-4210H
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz
1806
Intel Celeron J6412 Intel Celeron J6412
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
1798
Intel Core i7-5600U Intel Core i7-5600U
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
1796
Intel Core i5-4460T Intel Core i5-4460T
4C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
1796
Intel Core i7-6500U Intel Core i7-6500U
2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
1795
Intel Core i5-4330M Intel Core i5-4330M
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
1794

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.
AMD Ryzen 7 3700U AMD Ryzen 7 3700U
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
1020
Intel Core i7-4770HQ Intel Core i7-4770HQ
4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz
1014
Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz
1012
Intel Core i7-5600U Intel Core i7-5600U
2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
1009
Intel Core i7-4722HQ Intel Core i7-4722HQ
4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz
1009
Intel Core i5-5287U Intel Core i5-5287U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
1007
Intel Core i7-4785T Intel Core i7-4785T
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
1007

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 i7-2920XM Intel Core i7-2920XM
4C 8T @ 2.50 GHz
2020
Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus 5G Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus 5G
8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
2011
Intel Core i5-2550k Intel Core i5-2550k
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
2010
Intel Core i7-5600U Intel Core i7-5600U
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
2004
Intel Core i7-4578U Intel Core i7-4578U
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
2002
Apple A11 Bionic Apple A11 Bionic
6C 6T @ 2.39 GHz
1997
AMD Athlon PRO 300U AMD Athlon PRO 300U
2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
1986

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.
AMD EPYC 7601 AMD EPYC 7601
32C 64T @ 3.20 GHz
307
AMD Athlon Gold 3150U AMD Athlon Gold 3150U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
306
Intel Core i7-8500Y Intel Core i7-8500Y
2C 4T @ 4.20 GHz
306
Intel Core i7-5600U Intel Core i7-5600U
2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
305
Intel Core i5-8210Y Intel Core i5-8210Y
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
302
AMD Athlon 200GE AMD Athlon 200GE
2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
302
Intel Core i5-6300U Intel Core i5-6300U
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
299

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.
Intel Core i5-8200Y Intel Core i5-8200Y
2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
641
Intel Core i3-3220 Intel Core i3-3220
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
639
Intel Celeron J4105 Intel Celeron J4105
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
634
Intel Core i7-5600U Intel Core i7-5600U
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
632
Intel Core i5-8210Y Intel Core i5-8210Y
2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
632
Intel Celeron G5905 Intel Celeron G5905
2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz
615
Intel Core i3-1000NG4 Intel Core i3-1000NG4
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
612

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 i7-5600U Intel Core i7-5600U
Intel HD Graphics 5500 @ 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 Phenom II X3 740 AMD Phenom II X3 740
3C 3T @ 3.00 GHz
3012
AMD A10-7300 AMD A10-7300
4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
3010
Intel Core i5-6200U Intel Core i5-6200U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
3009
Intel Core i7-5600U Intel Core i7-5600U
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
3008
Intel Core i5-4308U Intel Core i5-4308U
2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
3005
AMD Athlon Silver 3050U AMD Athlon Silver 3050U
2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz
3004
Intel Core i3-7130U Intel Core i3-7130U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
3000

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 Phenom II X6 1100T AMD Phenom II X6 1100T
6C 6T @ 3.30 GHz
923
Intel Core i5-750 Intel Core i5-750
4C 4T @ 2.66 GHz
923
Intel Core i3-4130 Intel Core i3-4130
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
921
Intel Core i7-5600U Intel Core i7-5600U
2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz
912
Intel Core i7-6600U Intel Core i7-6600U
2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz
898
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
6C 6T @ 3.20 GHz
895
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400
4C 4T @ 2.66 GHz
894

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 i5-3570 Intel Core i5-3570
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
132
Intel Pentium G3430 Intel Pentium G3430
2C 2T @ 3.30 GHz
132
Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3 Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
132
Intel Core i7-5600U Intel Core i7-5600U
2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
131
Intel Core i7-4770HQ Intel Core i7-4770HQ
4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz
131
Intel Xeon Silver 4109T Intel Xeon Silver 4109T
8C 16T @ 3.00 GHz
131
Intel Xeon Silver 4110 Intel Xeon Silver 4110
8C 16T @ 3.00 GHz
131

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.
AMD Phenom II X4 850 AMD Phenom II X4 850
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
334
Intel Core i5-4460T Intel Core i5-4460T
4C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
332
Intel Core i5-4210H Intel Core i5-4210H
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz
331
Intel Core i7-5600U Intel Core i7-5600U
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
329
Intel Core i7-6567U Intel Core i7-6567U
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
329
Intel Core i7-5650U Intel Core i7-5650U
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
329
Intel Core i3-7100H Intel Core i3-7100H
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
328

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