Intel Core i7-6500U is part of the Skylake generation processors and it’s entitled to the ULV lineup (ultra-low voltage) with 14nm FinFET manufacturing process. It has two cores that support Hyper-Threading technology resulting in up to 4 threads. The chip is a direct successor to the Core i7-5500U Broadwell CPU expecting slightly better performance with emphasis on the power efficiency features.
The CPU is clocked at 2.5 GHz and can go up to 3.1 GHz for one active core or 3.0 GHz for two active cores. Also, the silicon includes an Intel HD Graphics 520 iGPU that sports 24 Execution Units ticking at 300 MHz and can go up to 1.05 GHz. The whole SoC supports DDR4-2133/DDR3L-1600 memory in a dual-channel array. So the whole chip is rated at 15W TDP including the memory controller and the integrated graphics thus making it suitable for 11-inch notebooks or bigger. It also supports the cTDP down feature and the OEM can lower the TDP to 7.5W.
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Intel Core i7-6500U vs competitors:
| # | CPU | Cores/ Threads |
Base clock | Turbo clock | Performance score |
In laptops starting at... |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21. | Intel Core i7-10750H | 6 / 12 | 2.60 GHz | 5.00 GHz | 7.0/10 | $949.99 |
| 22. | Intel Core i7-8850H | 6 / 12 | 2.60 GHz | 4.30 GHz | 6.3/10 | $949.00 |
| 23. | Intel Core i7-6500U | 2 / 4 | 2.50 GHz | 3.10 GHz | 1.6/10 | $610.00 |
| 24. | Intel Core i7-9750HF | 6 / 12 | 2.60 GHz | 4.50 GHz | - | N/A |
| 25. | AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U | 6 / 12 | 2.10 GHz | 4.00 GHz | - | $899.00 |
| 26. | AMD Ryzen 7 4700U | 8 / 8 | 2.00 GHz | 4.10 GHz | - | $747.00 |
We’ve tested Intel Core i7-6500U on…
| # | Laptop | Cinebench 11 | Cinebench 15 | Adobe Photoshop | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Alienware 13 R2 | 3.61 | 326.00 | 17.05 | $2499.33 |
| 2. | Acer Aspire V15 (V3-575) | 3.28 | 298.00 | 20.04 | N/A |
| 3. | Acer TravelMate X349-M | 3.59 | 323.00 | 19.20 | N/A |
| 4. | HP Spectre 13 (2016) | 3.22 | 263.00 | 18.78 | N/A |
| 5. | ASUS ZenBook UX303UB | 3.35 | 300.00 | 19.02 | N/A |