AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X vs Intel Core i7 6500U
CPU · Specs Compare
General Parameters
Release Date
Nov 2019
Sep 2015
Manufacturer
AMD
Intel
Type
Desktop
Laptop
Instruction Set
x86-64
x86-64
Core Architecture
Zen 2
Skylake
Integrated Graphics
N/A
HD Graphics 520
Processor Number
—
i7-6500U
Package
Transistor Count
23.5 billions
1.7 billions
Manufacturing Process
7 nm
14 nm
Socket
sTRX4
BGA-1356
Power Consumption
280 W
15 W
Peak Operating Temperature
68 °C
100 °C
CPU Performance
Performance Cores
32
2
Performance Core Threads
64
4
Performance Core Base Frequency
3.7 GHz
2.5 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
4.5 GHz
3.1 GHz
Total Core Count
32
2
Total Thread Count
64
4
Bus Frequency
100 MHz
—
Multiplier
37x
—
L1 Cache
64 K per core
64 K per core
L2 Cache
512 K per core
256 K per core
L3 Cache
128 MB shared
4 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier
Yes
No
Memory Parameters
Memory Types
DDR4-3200
DDR4-2133, LPDDR3-1866, DDR3L-1600
Max Memory Size
256 GB
32 GB
Max Memory Channels
4
2
Max Memory Bandwidth
95.37 GB/s
34.1 GB/s
ECC Memory Support
Yes
No
Miscellaneous
PCIe Version
4.0
3.0
PCIe Lanes
64
12
Extended Instruction Set
—
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics
—
true
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency
—
1050 MHz
Benchmark
Cinebench R23
1,308
719
Cinebench R23
46,874
2,072
Geekbench 6
1,463
1,027
Geekbench 6
12,202
2,074
Passmark CPU
2,674
1,695
Passmark CPU
62,989
3,261
Geekbench 5
—
742
Geekbench 5
—
1,655
Blender
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22
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.