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AMD Ryzen 5 7530U vs Intel Core i7-6500U

AMD Ryzen 5 7530U
48.6Inno Score
VS
Intel Core i7-6500U
—Inno Score
48.2Single-core—
33.9Multi-core20.4
81.9Efficiencyspec-based66.4
—iGPU20
49.9Platformspec-based28.9
8 spec wins — AMD Ryzen 5 7530U1 spec wins — Intel Core i7-6500U

InnoReviews verdict

No overall winner yet: Intel Core i7-6500U lacks the published benchmark results an Inno Score requires, so there is no Inno Score to compare — we don't rank chips on their spec sheet alone. The spec table below still shows every difference we track.

Which would you pick?

Key differences

Reasons to pick the AMD Ryzen 5 7530U

  • Stronger multi-core score: 34 vs 20
  • 355% higher PassMark: 14,896 vs 3,276
  • 300% higher L3 cache: 16 MB vs 4 MB
  • 200% higher cores: 6 vs 2
  • 200% higher threads: 12 vs 4

Reasons to pick the Intel Core i7-6500U

  • 25% higher Base clock: 2.5 GHz vs 2 GHz

General

General comparison: AMD Ryzen 5 7530U versus Intel Core i7-6500U
SpecAMD Ryzen 5 7530UIntel Core i7-6500U
Announced20232015
Process7 nm+50%14 nm
Base TDP15 W15 W
Max TDP—25 W

Cores & Clocks

Cores & Clocks comparison: AMD Ryzen 5 7530U versus Intel Core i7-6500U
SpecAMD Ryzen 5 7530UIntel Core i7-6500U
Cores6+200%2
Performance cores6—
Threads12+200%4
Base clock2 GHz2.5 GHz+25%
Boost clock4.5 GHz+45%3.1 GHz
L3 cache16 MB+300%4 MB

Integrated GPU

Integrated GPU comparison: AMD Ryzen 5 7530U versus Intel Core i7-6500U
SpecAMD Ryzen 5 7530UIntel Core i7-6500U
iGPUAMD Radeon Vega 7Intel HD Graphics 520
iGPU clock2,000 MHz1,050 MHz

Memory

Memory comparison: AMD Ryzen 5 7530U versus Intel Core i7-6500U
SpecAMD Ryzen 5 7530UIntel Core i7-6500U
Memory supportDDR4-3200 / LPDDR4X-4267DDR4-2133 / LPDDR3-1866 / DDR3L-1600
Max memory64 GB+100%32 GB

Benchmarks

Benchmarks comparison: AMD Ryzen 5 7530U versus Intel Core i7-6500U
SpecAMD Ryzen 5 7530UIntel Core i7-6500U
Geekbench 6 (single)1,991Bottom 20%—
Geekbench 6 (multi)7,067Bottom 20%—
Cinebench R23 (single)1,435Bottom 25%—
Cinebench R23 (multi)6,985Bottom 21%—
PassMark14,896+355%Bottom 31%3,276Bottom 4%
3DMark Time Spy Graphics (iGPU)—263Bottom 4%

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