Product Compare

Intel Core i5 6500 vs AMD Ryzen 7 160

CPU CPU
General Parameters
Release Date Sep 2015 Oct 2025
Manufacturer Intel AMD
Type Desktop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64
Core Architecture Skylake Rembrandt-R
Processor Number i5-6500
Integrated Graphics HD Graphics 530 Radeon 680M
Generation Ryzen 7 (Zen 3+ (Rembrandt))
Package
Manufacturing Process 14 nm 6 nm
Socket LGA-1151 AMD Socket FP7
Power Consumption 65 W 28 W
Peak Operating Temperature 95°C
Foundry TSMC
Die Size 210 mm²
Package FP7r2
CPU Performance
Performance Cores 4
Performance Core Threads 4
Performance Core Base Frequency 3.2 GHz 2.7 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency 3.6 GHz 4.75 GHz
Total Core Count 4 8
Total Thread Count 4 16
Multiplier 32x 27.0
L1 Cache 64 K per core 64 KB per core
L2 Cache 256 K per core 512 KB per core
L3 Cache 6 MB shared 16 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier No No
Bus Frequency 100 MHz
SMP 1
Memory Parameters
Memory Types DDR4-2133, DDR3L-1600 DDR5-4800
Max Memory Size 64 GB
Max Memory Channels 2 2
Max Memory Bandwidth 34.1 GB/s
ECC Memory Support No Yes
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics true
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency 1050 MHz
Miscellaneous
Official Website Official Link ↗
PCIe Version 3.0 4
PCIe Lanes 16 20
Extended Instruction Set SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 Single Core 1197 2343
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 3264 10635