Product Compare

Intel Core i3 1215U vs Intel Core i7 6500U

	CPU Intel Core i3 1215U	CPU Intel Core i7 6500U
General Parameters
Release Date	Feb 2022	Sep 2015
Manufacturer	Intel	Intel
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Instruction Set	x86-64	x86-64
Core Architecture	Alder Lake-U	Skylake
Processor Number	i3-1215U	i7-6500U
Integrated Graphics	UHD Graphics (64EU)	HD Graphics 520
Package
Manufacturing Process	10 nm	14 nm
Socket	BGA-1744	BGA-1356
Power Consumption	15 W	15 W
Peak Operating Temperature	100 °C	100 °C
Transistor Count		1.7 billions
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	2	2
Performance Core Base Frequency	1.2 GHz	2.5 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	4.4 GHz	3.1 GHz
Efficiency Cores	4
Total Core Count	6	2
Total Thread Count	8	4
Bus Frequency	100 MHz
Multiplier	12x
L1 Cache	80 K per core	64 K per core
L2 Cache	1280 K per core	256 K per core
L3 Cache	10 MB shared	4 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	No	No
Performance Core Threads		4
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200, LPDDR5-5200, LPDDR4x-4267	DDR4-2133, LPDDR3-1866, DDR3L-1600
Max Memory Size	64 GB	32 GB
Max Memory Channels	2	2
Max Memory Bandwidth	76.8 GB/s	34.1 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	No	No
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics	true	true
GPU Base Frequency	300 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency	1100 MHz	1050 MHz
Shader Units	512
Texture Units	32
Raster Operation Units	16
Execution Units	64
Power Consumption	45 W
Miscellaneous
Official Website	Official Link ↗	Official Link ↗
PCIe Version	4.0	3.0
PCIe Lanes	20	12
Extended Instruction Set		SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 Single Core	1581	719
Cinebench R23 Multi Core	5768	2072
Geekbench 6 Single Core	1640	1027
Geekbench 5 Single Core	1572	742
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	3776	2074
Geekbench 5 Multi Core	5963	1655
Blender	77	22
Passmark CPU Single Core	3408	1695
Passmark CPU Multi Core	11350	3261