AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs Intel Core i7-6500U. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 2000 Intel Core i 6000U
• Family
  Ryzen Intel Core i7
• Form Factor
  Desktops / Boxed Processor -
• Generation
  2 6
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Series
  Ryzen 2000 Series -
• Successor
  AMD Ryzen 5 3600 -

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  3.4 GHz 2.5 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  6 2
• CPU Threads
  12 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Max. Boost Clock
  3.9 GHz -
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.9 GHz 3.1 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  3.7 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - 2.8 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  None Intel HD Graphics 520
• DirectX Version
  - 12
• Execution units
  - 24
• Generation
  - 9
• GPU Frequency
  - 300 MHz
• GPU Turbo
  - 1050 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 32 GB
• Release date
  - Q3/2015
• Shader
  - 192
• Technology
  - 14 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-6500U and AMD Ryzen 5 2600. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4 DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMMDDR4-2133 SO-DIMMLPDDR3-1866
• PCIe
  PCIe 3.0 x16 -
• PCIe lanes
  20 12
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• System Memory Specification
  2933 -

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 5 2600 and Intel Core i7-6500U Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Default TDP
  65 W -
• Maximum Operating Temperature
  95 °C -
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  65 W 15 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 5 2600 and Intel Core i7-6500U, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Pinnacle Ridge (Zen+) Skylake U
• Codename
  Pinnacle Ridge -
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L1-Cache
  0.5625 MB -
• L2-Cache
  3 MB -
• L3-Cache
  16 MB 4 MB
• Manufacturer product ID (boxed)
  YD2600BBAFBOX -
• Manufacturer product ID (MPK)
  YD2600BBAFMPK -
• Manufacturer product ID (tray)
  YD2600BBM6IAF -
• Operating systems
  Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition / Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit -
• Release date
  2018-04-19 Q3/2015
• Socket
  AM4 BGA 1356
• Technology
  12nm FinFET 14 nm
• Thermal Solution (MPK)
  AMD Wraith Stealth -
• Thermal Solution (PIB)
  AMD Wraith Stealth -
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d