Product Compare

Intel Core i7 6500U vs Apple M4 8 Core

	CPU Intel Core i7 6500U	CPU Apple M4 8 Core
General Parameters
Release Date	Sep 2015	Oct 2024
Manufacturer	Intel	Apple
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Instruction Set	x86-64	ARMv9
Core Architecture	Skylake	Apple M4
Processor Number	i7-6500U
Integrated Graphics	HD Graphics 520	Apple M4 GPU (8-core)
Package
Transistor Count	1.7 billions	28 billions
Manufacturing Process	14 nm	3 nm
Socket	BGA-1356	Apple M-Socket
Power Consumption	15 W	20 W
Peak Operating Temperature	100 °C	100 °C
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	2	4
Performance Core Threads	4	4
Performance Core Base Frequency	2.5 GHz	4.41 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	3.1 GHz
Total Core Count	2	8
Total Thread Count	4	8
L1 Cache	64 K per core	192 K per core
L2 Cache	256 K per core	16 MB shared
L3 Cache	4 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	No	No
Efficiency Cores		4
Efficiency Core Threads		4
Efficiency Core Base Frequency		2.59 GHz
Multiplier		44
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR4-2133, LPDDR3-1866, DDR3L-1600	LPDDR5X-7500
Max Memory Size	32 GB
Max Memory Channels	2
Max Memory Bandwidth	34.1 GB/s	120 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	No	No
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics	true	true
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency	1050 MHz	1800 MHz
GPU Base Frequency		500 MHz
Shader Units		1024
Texture Units		64
Raster Operation Units		32
Execution Units		128
Power Consumption		15
Miscellaneous
Official Website	Official Link ↗
PCIe Version	3.0
PCIe Lanes	12
Extended Instruction Set	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 Single Core	719	2091
Cinebench R23 Multi Core	2072	11229
Geekbench 6 Single Core	1027	3674
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	2074	13664