Intel Core i5-6500: CPU Specs and Performance, Benchmarks
The Intel Core i5-6500 is a 4-core and 4-thread processor configuration with a base clock speed of 3200 MHz. The CPU specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below.
Performance (Benchmarks)
- Geekbench 5 Single-Core Score
- 895
- Geekbench 5 Multi-Core Score
- 2908
- PassMark CPU Mark Rating
- 5641
- PassMark Single Thread Rating
- 2124
- 3DMark Time Spy Physics Score
- 3245
Processor Specs
- Processor
- Intel Core i5-6500
- Frequency
- 3200 MHz
- Maximum Frequency
- 3600 MHz
- Cores
- 4
- Threads
- 4
- TDP
- 65 W
- GPU
- Intel HD Graphics 530
- Codename
- Skylake
- Package
- FCLGA1151

Geekbench 5 Benchmark
- Single-Core Score
- 895
- Multi-Core Score
- 3175
- Benchmark
- Geekbench 5.4.1 Tryout for macOS x86 (64-bit)
System Information
- Operating System
- macOS 11.5 (Build 20G71)
- Model
- iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
- Model ID
- iMac17,1
- Motherboard
- Apple Inc. Mac-DB15BD556843C820 iMac17,1
CPU Specifications
- Name
- Intel Core i5-6500
- Topology
- 1 Processor, 4 Cores
- Identifier
- GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3
- Base Frequency
- 3.20 GHz
- L1 Instruction Cache
- 32.0 KB x 2
- L1 Data Cache
- 32.0 KB x 2
- L2 Cache
- 256 KB x 2
- L3 Cache
- 6.00 MB x 1
Memory Information
- Size
- 24.00 GB
- Transfer Rate
- 1867 MT/s
- Type
- DDR3
Geekbench 5 result (single)
| Single-Core Score | 895 |
|---|---|
| Crypto Score | 949 |
| Integer Score | 879 |
| Floating Point Score | 922 |
| AES-XTS | 949 1.62 GB/sec |
| Text Compression (LZMA) | 903 4.57 MB/sec |
| Image Compression | 943 44.6 Mpixels/sec |
| Navigation (using Dijkstra's algorithm) | 912 2.57 MTE/sec |
| HTML5 | 778 913.4 KElements/sec |
| SQLite | 803 251.5 Krows/sec |
| PDF Rendering | 917 49.8 Mpixels/sec |
| Text Rendering | 849 270.5 KB/sec |
| Clang | 878 6.84 Klines/sec |
| Camera | 947 11.0 images/sec |
| N-Body Physics | 887 1.11 Mpairs/sec |
| Rigid Body Physics | 1109 6871.0 FPS |
| Gaussian Blur | 269 14.8 Mpixels/sec |
| Face Detection | 560 4.31 images/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 917 22.6 Mpixels/sec |
| Image Inpainting | 1871 91.8 Mpixels/sec |
| HDR | 1734 23.6 Mpixels/sec |
| Ray Tracing | 1005 807.2 Kpixels/sec |
| Structure from Motion | 892 7.99 Kpixels/sec |
| Speech Recognition | 967 30.9 Words/sec |
| Machine Learning | 1077 41.6 images/sec |
Geekbench 5 result (multi)
| Multi-Core Score | 3175 |
|---|---|
| Crypto Score | 4188 |
| Integer Score | 2942 |
| Floating Point Score | 3510 |
| AES-XTS | 4188 7.14 GB/sec |
| Text Compression (LZMA) | 2931 14.8 MB/sec |
| Image Compression | 3462 163.8 Mpixels/sec |
| Navigation (using Dijkstra's algorithm) | 2226 6.28 MTE/sec |
| HTML5 | 2645 3.11 MElements/sec |
| SQLite | 3147 985.9 Krows/sec |
| PDF Rendering | 2979 161.7 Mpixels/sec |
| Text Rendering | 2944 938.1 KB/sec |
| Clang | 3149 24.5 Klines/sec |
| Camera | 3178 36.8 images/sec |
| N-Body Physics | 3054 3.82 Mpairs/sec |
| Rigid Body Physics | 4089 25331.5 FPS |
| Gaussian Blur | 3255 178.9 Mpixels/sec |
| Face Detection | 3623 27.9 images/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 3222 79.4 Mpixels/sec |
| Image Inpainting | 5011 245.8 Mpixels/sec |
| HDR | 5886 80.2 Mpixels/sec |
| Ray Tracing | 5171 4.15 Mpixels/sec |
| Structure from Motion | 3085 27.6 Kpixels/sec |
| Speech Recognition | 2129 68.1 Words/sec |
| Machine Learning | 2097 81.0 images/sec |