Intel Core i7-6650U Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2024-04-16

The Intel Core i7-6650U has 2 cores with 4 threads and is based on the 6. gen of the Intel Core i7 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the BGA 1356 socket and was released in Q3/2015. The Intel Core i7-6650U scores 820 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 1,846 points.

CPU lineage
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Name:	Intel Core i7-6650U
Family:	Intel Core i7 (298)
CPU group:	Intel Core i 6000U (20)
Architecture:	Skylake U
Segment:	Mobile
Generation:	6
Predecessor:	Intel Core i7-5650U
Successor:	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i7-6650U has 2 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i7-6650U is 2.20 GHz (3.40 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:	2.20 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	3.40 GHz
Turbo Frequency (2 Cores):	2.80 GHz

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

AI hardware:	--
AI specifications:	--

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i7-6650U has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i7-6650U uses the Intel Iris Graphics 540, which has 384 texture shaders and 48 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name:	Intel Iris Graphics 540
GPU frequency:	0.30 GHz
GPU (Turbo):	1.05 GHz
Compute units:	48
Shader:	384
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

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
h265 / HEVC (10 bit):	No
h264:	Decode / Encode
VP8:	Decode / Encode
VP9:	No

AV1:	No
AVC:	Decode / Encode
VC-1:	Decode
JPEG:	Decode / Encode

Memory type:	Memory bandwidth:
Memory & PCIe The processor can use up to 32 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.

LPDDR3-1866 DDR4-2133 DDR3L-1600	29.9 GB/s 34.1 GB/s 25.6 GB/s
Max. Memory:	32 GB
Memory channels:	2 (Dual Channel)
ECC:	No
PCIe:	3.0 x 12
PCIe Bandwidth:	11.8 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:	9.5 W
Tjunction max.:	100 °C

Technical details

The Intel Core i7-6650U 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 1356
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:	Q3/2015
Release price:	415 $
Part Number:	--
Documents:	Technical data sheet

Intel Core i7-6650U
2C 4T @ 2.20 GHz (3.40 GHz)

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the Intel Core i7-6650U 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 EPYC 7351P 16C 32T @ 2.90 GHz	821
	AMD Ryzen 3 1200 [12nm] 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	821
	Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 8C 16T @ 3.00 GHz	821
	Intel Core i7-6650U 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	820
	Intel Core i7-6660U 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	820
	Intel Core i7-6600U 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	820
	Intel Celeron G5900T 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	818

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 i5-4340M 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	1863
	Samsung Exynos 1280 8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz	1855
	Intel Core i3-4150 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	1849
	Intel Core i7-6650U 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	1846
	Intel Celeron N5100 4C 4T @ 2.20 GHz	1834
	AMD FX-6120 6C 6T @ 4.10 GHz	1833
	Intel Core i5-2500T 4C 4T @ 2.30 GHz	1832

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 Athlon Silver 7120U 2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz	1093
	Apple A11 Bionic 6C 6T @ 2.39 GHz	1093
	Intel Core m7-6Y75 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	1093
	Intel Core i7-6650U 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	1092
	Intel Core i7-6660U 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	1092
	AMD Ryzen 3 1200 [12nm] 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	1092
	Intel Core i5-8400T 6C 6T @ 3.30 GHz	1092

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 i3-8130U 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	2168
	Intel Core i7-3615QE 4C 8T @ 2.30 GHz	2162
	Intel Core i7-6498DU 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	2160
	Intel Core i7-6650U 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	2146
	Intel Core i7-3610QE 4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	2145
	Intel Core i7-2600S 4C 8T @ 2.80 GHz	2139
	Intel Xeon X3440 4C 8T @ 2.53 GHz	2136

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 i5-5350H Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200 @ 1.05 GHz	806
	Intel Core i5-5575R Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200 @ 1.05 GHz	806
	Intel Core i7-5750HQ Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200 @ 1.05 GHz	806
	Intel Core i7-6650U Intel Iris Graphics 540 @ 1.05 GHz	806
	Intel Core i5-5257U Intel Iris Graphics 6100 @ 1.05 GHz	806
	Intel Core i5-4570R Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 @ 1.25 GHz	800
	Intel Core i5-14500HX Intel UHD Graphics 13th Gen (32 EU) @ 1.55 GHz	794

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 A10-9700 4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	3660
	Intel Core i7-7500U 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	3659
	Intel Core i5-2320 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	3655
	Intel Core i7-6650U 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	3650
	Intel Core i5-2310 4C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	3640
	Intel Core i3-6100T 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	3630
	MediaTek Dimensity 700 8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz	3622

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 i7-4790 4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz	145
	Intel Core i7-4790S 4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz	145
	Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2 6C 12T @ 3.90 GHz	145
	Intel Core i7-6650U 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	144
	Intel Core i7-4870HQ 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	144
	Intel Core i5-7260U 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	144
	Intel Core i7-6600U 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	144

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 A8-3870K 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	302
	AMD Phenom II X4 940 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	302
	Intel Core i7-6500U 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	302
	Intel Core i7-6650U 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	300
	Intel Core i3-4150T 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	297
	Intel Core i3-4330T 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	297
	Intel Celeron J4125 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	296

Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,488 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,461 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,755 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,703 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,042 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
516 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,392 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,106 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,101 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
942 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
938 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
825 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
836 entries

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