Intel Core i5 6500 vs Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus
CPU · Specs Compare
General Parameters
Release Date
Sep 2015
Jan 2026
Manufacturer
Intel
Intel
Type
Desktop
Laptop
Instruction Set
x86-64
x86-64
Core Architecture
Skylake
Arrow Lake
Processor Number
i5-6500
290HX
Integrated Graphics
HD Graphics 530
Arc Graphics (4-Cores)
Generation
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Ultra 9 (Arrow Lake-HX)
Package
Manufacturing Process
14 nm
3 nm
Socket
LGA-1151
FCBGA-2114
Power Consumption
65 W
45-55 W
Transistor Count
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17.8 billions
Max Turbo Power Consumption
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160 W
Peak Operating Temperature
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105 °C
Foundry
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TSMC
Die Size
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243 mm²
Package
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FC-BGA
CPU Performance
Performance Cores
4
8
Performance Core Threads
4
8
Performance Core Base Frequency
3.2 GHz
2.7 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
3.6 GHz
5.5 GHz
Total Core Count
4
24
Total Thread Count
4
24
Multiplier
32x
27
L1 Cache
64 K per core
192 K per core
L2 Cache
256 K per core
3 MB per core
L3 Cache
6 MB shared
36 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier
No
Yes
Efficiency Cores
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16
Efficiency Core Threads
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16
Efficiency Core Base Frequency
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1.8 GHz
Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency
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4.7 GHz
Bus Frequency
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100 MHz
SMP
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1
Memory Parameters
Memory Types
DDR4-2133, DDR3L-1600
DDR5-6400
Max Memory Size
64 GB
256 GB
Max Memory Channels
2
2
Max Memory Bandwidth
34.1 GB/s
102.4 GB/s
ECC Memory Support
No
No
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics
true
true
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency
1050 MHz
2000 MHz
GPU Base Frequency
—
300 MHz
Shader Units
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512
Texture Units
—
32
Raster Operation Units
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16
Execution Units
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64
Power Consumption
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14
Miscellaneous
PCIe Version
3.0
5.0
PCIe Lanes
16
24
Extended Instruction Set
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2
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Benchmark
Cinebench R23
966
2,237
Cinebench R23
3,420
38,581
Geekbench 6
1,197
3,196
Geekbench 5
900
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Geekbench 6
3,264
21,569
Geekbench 5
3,118
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Blender
53
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Passmark CPU
2,116
5,006
Passmark CPU
5,591
66,051
Cinebench 2024
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126
Cinebench 2024
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2,218
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.