Baikal-M vs Intel Core i5-6500. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Baikal-M Intel Core i 6000
• Family
  Baikal Intel Core i5
• Segment
  Desktop Desktop / Server
• Generation
  - 6
• Successor
  - Intel Core i5-7500

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

• Base Frequency
  1.5 GHz 3.2 GHz
• CPU Cores
  8 4
• CPU Threads
  8 4
• Core architecture
  - normal
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  - No
• Overclocking
  - No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  - 3.6 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  - 3.4 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 Frequency
  0,7 GHz 350 MHz
• GPU name
  Arm Mali-T628 Intel HD Graphics 530
• Shader
  8 192
• DirectX Version
  - 12
• Execution units
  - 24
• Generation
  - 9
• GPU Turbo
  - 1150 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 64 GB
• Release date
  - Q3/2015
• Technology
  - 14 nm

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-6500 and Baikal-M. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  128 64 GB
• Memory channels
  8 2
• Memory type
  DDR3/DDR4-2400 -
• PCIe
  3 -
• PCIe lanes
  - 16
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  - Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Baikal-M and Intel Core i5-6500 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  30 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Baikal-M and Intel Core i5-6500, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  CortexA57 Skylake S
• L2-Cache (layout)
  4x1024 KB -
• L3-Cache
  8 MB 6 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2019 Q3/2015
• Socket
  FCBGA-1521 LGA 1151
• Technology
  28 nm 14 nm
• Instruction set (ISA)
  - x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  - SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• Virtualization
  - VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d