Pentium Gold 6500Y: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Pentium Gold 6500Y provides poor benchmark performance at 1.90% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.
Summary
Intel started Pentium Gold 6500Y sales 1 March 2021. This is an Amber Lake-Y architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3400 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is BGA1515 processor with a TDP of 5 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.
Primary details
Pentium Gold 6500Y processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 1980 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Power efficiency | 35.96 | of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme) |
| Architecture codename | Amber Lake-Y (2018−2021) | |
| Release date | 1 March 2021 (3 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 2 (Dual-core) | |
| Threads | 4 | |
| Base clock speed | 1.1 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 3.4 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| Bus rate | 4 GT/s | |
| L1 cache | 128 KB | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 512 KB | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 4 MB | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 14 nm | of 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Maximum core temperature | 100 °C | of 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | + |
Compatibility
Information on Pentium Gold 6500Y compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.
| Number of CPUs in a configuration | 1 | of 8 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | BGA1515 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 5 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Pentium Gold 6500Y. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2 | |
| AES-NI | + | |
| FMA | + | |
| AVX | + | |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | |
| Speed Shift | + | |
| Turbo Boost Technology | 2.0 | |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | + | |
| Idle States | + | |
| Thermal Monitoring | + | |
| Flex Memory Access | + |
Security technologies
Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| TXT | - | |
| EDB | + | |
| Secure Key | + | |
| MPX | + | |
| Identity Protection | + | |
| OS Guard | + |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| VT-d | + | |
| VT-x | + | |
| EPT | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Pentium Gold 6500Y's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3 | |
| Maximum memory size | 16 GB | of 6 TiB (EPYC 9124) |
| Max memory channels | 2 | of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221) |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 33.3 GB/s | of 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9124) |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Pentium Gold 6500Y.
| Integrated graphics card | Intel UHD Graphics 615 | |
| Max video memory | 16 GB | |
| Quick Sync Video | + | |
| Clear Video | + | |
| Clear Video HD | + | |
| Graphics max frequency | 900 MHz | |
| Execution Units | 23 |
Graphics interfaces
Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Gold 6500Y's integrated GPU.
| Number of displays supported | 3 | |
| eDP | + | |
| DisplayPort | + | |
| HDMI | + | |
| DVI | + |
Graphics image quality
Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium Gold 6500Y's integrated GPU, including resolutions over different interfaces.
| 4K resolution support | + | |
| Max resolution over HDMI 1.4 | 4096x2304@24Hz | |
| Max resolution over eDP | 3840x2160@60Hz | |
| Max resolution over DisplayPort | 3840x2160@60Hz |
Graphics API support
APIs supported by Pentium Gold 6500Y's integrated GPU, sometimes API versions are included.
| DirectX | 12 | |
| OpenGL | 4.5 |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K) |
| PCI Express lanes | 10 | of 128 (EPYC 7551P) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Pentium Gold 6500Y. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
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Passmark
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Pentium Gold 6500Y is Athlon Silver 3050U, which is slower by 1% and lower by 8 positions in our ranking.
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