Intel Pentium Gold G6500 Benchmark, Test and specs
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The Intel Pentium Gold G6500 has 2 cores with 4 threads and is based on the 10. gen of the Intel Pentium series. The processor uses a mainboard with the LGA 1200 socket and was released in Q2/2020. The Intel Pentium Gold G6500 scores 1,060 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 2,232 points.
CPU lineageThe segment in which we have classified the Intel Pentium Gold G6500. Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the Intel Pentium Gold G6500. |
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| Name: | Intel Pentium Gold G6500 |
| Family: | Intel Pentium |
| CPU group: | Intel Pentium G6000 |
| Segment: | Desktop / Server |
| Generation: | 10 |
| Predecessor: | Intel Pentium Gold G5500 |
| Successor: | -- |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
The Intel Pentium Gold G6500 has 2 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Pentium Gold G6500 is 4.10 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: | 4.10 GHz |
| Turbo Frequency (1 Core): | -- |
| Turbo Frequency (2 Cores): | -- |
Internal Graphics
The Intel Pentium Gold G6500 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Pentium Gold G6500 uses the Intel HD Graphics 630, 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 630 |
| GPU frequency: | 0.35 GHz |
| GPU (Turbo): | 1.10 GHz |
| Execution units: | 24 |
| Shader: | 192 |
| Max. GPU Memory: | 64 GB |
| Max. displays: | 3 |
| Generation: | 9.5 |
| Direct X: | 12 |
| Technology: | 14 nm |
| Release date: | Q2/2016 |
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): | Decode / Encode |
| h264: | Decode / Encode |
| VP8: | Decode / Encode |
| VP9: | Decode / Encode |
| AV1: | No |
| AVC: | Decode / Encode |
| VC-1: | Decode |
| JPEG: | Decode / Encode |
Memory & PCIeThe processor can use up to 128 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 42.7 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: | DDR4-2666 |
| Max. Memory: | 128 GB |
| Memory channels: | 2 (Dual Channel) |
| Bandwidth: | 42.7 GB/s |
| ECC: | Yes |
| PCIe: | 3.0 x 16 |
| AES-NI: | Yes |
Thermal ManagementThe thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 58 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): | 58 W |
| TDP (PL2): | -- |
| TDP up: | -- |
| TDP down: | -- |
| Tjunction max.: | 100 °C |
Technical details
The Intel Pentium Gold G6500 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: | LGA 1200 |
| L2-Cache: | -- |
| L3-Cache: | 4.00 MB |
| Architecture: | Comet Lake S |
| Operating systems: | Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux |
| Virtualization: | VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d |
| Instruction set (ISA): | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions: | SSE4.1, SSE4.2 |
| Release date: | Q2/2020 |
| Release price: | 90 $ |
| Part Number: | -- |
| Documents: | Technical data sheet |
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Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Pentium Gold G6500 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 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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4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-1034G1
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Pentium Gold G6500
2C 4T @ 4.10 GHz |
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Intel Xeon W-3235
12C 24T @ 4.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-9400F
6C 6T @ 4.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-8365U
4C 8T @ 4.10 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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Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
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2C 4T @ 4.10 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 Pentium Gold G6500
2C 4T @ 4.10 GHz |
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2C 4T @ 4.10 GHz |
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8C 16T @ 4.00 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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Intel Core i7-2630QM
4C 8T @ 2.00 GHz |
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2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz |
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Intel Pentium Gold G6500
2C 4T @ 4.10 GHz |
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4C 4T @ 2.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-4590T
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2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz |
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iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
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Intel Pentium Gold G6500
Intel HD Graphics 630 @ 1.10 GHz |
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Intel Pentium Gold G6505T
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Intel Pentium Gold G6505
Intel HD Graphics 630 @ 1.10 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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4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz |
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4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz |
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Intel Pentium Gold G6500
2C 4T @ 4.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-7300T
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz |
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Intel Celeron N5095A
4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-6098P
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Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
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Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-10100T
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Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
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4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz |
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6C 6T @ 1.70 GHz |
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Intel Pentium Gold G6500
2C 4T @ 4.10 GHz |
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Intel Pentium Gold G5600F
2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz |
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Intel Pentium Gold G5600
2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-7100
2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz |
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Benchmarks
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Cinebench R15 (SC)
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Cinebench R15 (MC)
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