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AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme vs Intel Core i5 6500

	CPU AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme	CPU Intel Core i5 6500
General Parameters
Release Date	Jun 2025	Sep 2015
Manufacturer	Amd	Intel
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Instruction Set	x86-64	x86-64
Core Architecture	Zen 5 (Strix Point)	Skylake
Integrated Graphics	Radeon 890M	HD Graphics 530
Processor Number		i5-6500
Package
Manufacturing Process	4 nm	14 nm
Socket	FP8	LGA-1151
Power Consumption	15-35 W	65 W
Peak Operating Temperature	100 °C
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	3	4
Performance Core Threads	6	4
Performance Core Base Frequency	2.0 GHz	3.2 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	5 GHz	3.6 GHz
Efficiency Cores	5
Efficiency Core Threads	10
Efficiency Core Base Frequency	2.0 GHz
Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency	3.3 GHz
Total Core Count	8	4
Total Thread Count	16	4
Bus Frequency	100 MHz
Multiplier	20	32x
L1 Cache	80 K per core	64 K per core
L2 Cache	1 MB per core	256 K per core
L3 Cache	16 MB shared	6 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	No	No
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR5-5600,LPDDR5X-8000	DDR4-2133, DDR3L-1600
ECC Memory Support	Yes	No
Max Memory Size		64 GB
Max Memory Channels		2
Max Memory Bandwidth		34.1 GB/s
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics	true	true
GPU Base Frequency	800 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency	2900 MHz	1050 MHz
Shader Units	1024
Texture Units	64
Raster Operation Units	40
Execution Units	16
Power Consumption	15
Miscellaneous
Official Website	Official Link ↗	Official Link ↗
PCIe Version	4.0	3.0
PCIe Lanes	16	16
Extended Instruction Set		SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 Single Core	1953	966
Cinebench R23 Multi Core	14572	3420
Geekbench 6 Single Core	2753	1197
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	11860	3264
Passmark CPU Single Core	4074	2116
Passmark CPU Multi Core	24157	5591