AMD Ryzen 5 7520C vs Intel Core i7 6500U

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AMD Ryzen 5 7520C

Intel Core i7 6500U

We compared two laptop CPUs: AMD Ryzen 5 7520C with 4 cores 2.8GHz and Intel Core i7 6500U with 2 cores 2.5GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD Ryzen 5 7520C 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Higher base frequency (2.8GHz vs 2.5GHz)

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 14nm)

Intel Core i7 6500U 's Advantages

Integrated graphics card

Higher specification of memory (2133 vs 5)

Newer PCIe version (3.0 vs 3)

Score

AMD Ryzen 5 7520C

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Intel Core i7 6500U

General Parameters

May 2023

Release Date

Sep 2015

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Laptop

Type

Laptop

-

Instruction Set

x86-64

Mendocino

Core Architecture

Skylake

-

Processor Number

i7-6500U

AMD Socket FT6

Socket

BGA-1356

Radeon 610M

Integrated Graphics

HD Graphics 520

Ryzen 5(Zen 2 (Mendocino))

Generation

-

Package

-

Transistor Count

1.7 billions

6 nm

Manufacturing Process

14 nm

15 W

Power Consumption

15 W

95°C

Peak Operating Temperature

100 °C

TSMC

Foundry

-

100 mm²

Die Size

-

CPU Performance

-

Performance Cores

2

-

Performance Core Threads

4

2.8 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.5 GHz

4.3 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.1 GHz

4

Total Core Count

2

8

Total Thread Count

4

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

-

28.0

Multiplier

-

64 KB per core

L1 Cache

64 K per core

512 KB per core

L2 Cache

256 K per core

4 MB shared

L3 Cache

4 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

1

SMP

-

Memory Parameters

DDR5

Memory Types

DDR4-2133, LPDDR3-1866, DDR3L-1600

-

Max Memory Size

32 GB

2

Max Memory Channels

2

-

Max Memory Bandwidth

34.1 GB/s

No

ECC Memory Support

No

Graphics Card Parameters

-

Integrated Graphics

true

-

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

1050 MHz

Miscellaneous

AMD Ryzen 5 7520C

Official Website

Intel Core i7 6500U

3

PCIe Version

3.0

4

PCIe Lanes

12

-

Extended Instruction Set

SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2

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