AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 5650U vs Intel Core i7-6600U. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  AMD Ryzen Intel Core i7
• Generation
  4 6
• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 5000U Intel Core i 6000U

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  2.30 GHz 2.60 GHz
• CPU Cores
  6 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.20 GHz 3.40 GHz
• CPU Threads
  12 4
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  AMD Radeon 7 Graphics (Renoir) Intel HD Graphics 520
• GPU frequency
  1.80 GHz 0.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.05 GHz
• Execution units
  7 24
• Shader
  448 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 32 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  9 9
• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Technology
  7 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2020 Q3/2015

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-6600U and AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 5650U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-3200LPDDR4-4266 DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMMDDR4-2133 SO-DIMMLPDDR3-1866
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 32 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  12 12

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 5650U and Intel Core i7-6600U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 15 W
• TDP up
  25 W 25 W
• TDP down
  10 W 7.5 W
• Tjunction max.
  105 °C 100 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 5650U and AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 5650U, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  16.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cezanne (Zen 3) Skylake U
• Technology
  7 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  FP6 BGA 1356
• Release date
  Q1/2021 Q3/2015