MediaTek Dimensity 9000 vs Intel Core i5-6400. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Mediatek Dimensity Intel Core i5
• CPU group
  MediaTek Dimensity 9000 Intel Core i 6000
• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Generation
  3 6
• Successor
  -- Intel Core i5-7400

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.

• Core architecture
  hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE) normal
• Overclocking
  No No

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-G710 MP10 Intel HD Graphics 530
• GPU frequency
  0.85 GHz 0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.15 GHz
• Execution units
  10 24
• Shader
  0 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 64 GB
• Max. displays
  1 3
• Generation
  Vallhall 3 9
• Technology
  4 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2021 Q3/2015

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
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode
• AV1
  Decode No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode / Encode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-6400 and MediaTek Dimensity 9000. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR5-7500 DDR3-1600DDR4-2133
• Max. Memory
  64 GB
• Memory channels
  4 2
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP MediaTek Dimensity 9000 and Intel Core i5-6400 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by MediaTek Dimensity 9000 and MediaTek Dimensity 9000, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv9-A64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  -- 6.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cortex-X2 / -A710 / -A510 Skylake S
• Technology
  4 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  None VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• Socket
  N/A LGA 1151
• Release date
  Q1/2022 Q3/2015
• Part Number
  MT6983 --