Intel Core i7 6700HQ vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8640HS

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Intel Core i7 6700HQ

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8640HS

We compared two laptop CPUs: Intel Core i7 6700HQ with 4 cores 2.6GHz and AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8640HS with 6 cores 3.5GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8640HS 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Higher specification of memory (7500 vs 2133)

Larger memory bandwidth (89.6GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3.0)

Higher base frequency (3.5GHz vs 2.6GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (16MB vs 6MB)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (30W vs 45W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Intel Core i7 6700HQ

1044

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8640HS +132%

2432

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Intel Core i7 6700HQ

3554

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8640HS +174%

9739

Intel Core i7 6700HQ

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AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8640HS

General Parameters

Sep 2015

Release Date

Apr 2024

Intel

Manufacturer

AMD

Laptop

Type

Laptop

x86-64

Instruction Set

-

Skylake

Core Architecture

Hawk Point

i7-6700HQ

Processor Number

-

BGA-1440

Socket

AMD Socket FP7

HD Graphics 530

Integrated Graphics

Radeon 760M

-

Generation

Ryzen 5 (Zen 4 (Hawk Point))

Package

-

Transistor Count

25 billions

14 nm

Manufacturing Process

4 nm

45 W

Power Consumption

20-30 W

100 °C

Peak Operating Temperature

-

Foundry

TSMC

-

Die Size

178 mm²

CPU Performance

4

Performance Cores

6

8

Performance Core Threads

12

2.6 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

3.5 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4.9 GHz

4

Total Core Count

6

8

Total Thread Count

12

-

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

26x

Multiplier

35.0

128 K per core

L1 Cache

64 KB per core

256 K per core

L2 Cache

6 MB

6 MB shared

L3 Cache

16 MB

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

-

SMP

1

Memory Parameters

DDR4-2133, LPDDR3-1866, DDR3L-1600

Memory Types

DDR5-5600,LPDDR5x-7500

64 GB

Max Memory Size

256 GB

2

Max Memory Channels

2

34.1 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

89.6 GB/s

No

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Graphics Card Parameters

true

Integrated Graphics

true

-

GPU Base Frequency

MHz

1050 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

2600 MHz

-

Execution Units

8

AI Accelerator

-

NPU

AMD Ryzen™ AI

-

Theoretical performance

16 TOPS

Miscellaneous

Intel Core i7 6700HQ

Official Website

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8640HS

3.0

PCIe Version

4

16

PCIe Lanes

20

SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2

Extended Instruction Set

-

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