MediaTek Helio G88 vs Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Mediatek Helio Intel Pentium
• Generation
  1 10
• CPU group
  MediaTek Helio G70/G80 Intel Pentium 6000Y
• Predecessor
  -- No
• Successor
  -- No

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  1.80 GHz 1.10 GHz
• CPU Cores
  8 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.00 GHz 3.40 GHz
• CPU Threads
  8 4
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) normal

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
  ARM Mali-G52 MP2 Intel HD Graphics 615
• GPU frequency
  1.00 GHz 0.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 0.90 GHz
• Execution units
  2 24
• Shader
  32 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 16 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  Bifrost 2 9.5
• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Technology
  16 nm 14nm
• Release date
  Q3/2020 Q2/2016

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode / Encode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y and MediaTek Helio G88. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-1800 DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM LPDDR3-1866
• Max. Memory
  8 GB 16 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP MediaTek Helio G88 and Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  -- 5 W
• TDP up
  -- 7 W
• TDP (PL2)
  -- No
• TDP down
  -- 3.5 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 100 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by MediaTek Helio G88 and MediaTek Helio G88, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  -- SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  -- 2.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  -- 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cortex-A75 / Cortex-A55 Amber Lake U
• Technology
  12 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  N/A BGA 1515
• Release date
  Q2/2020 Q1/2021