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Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y Review: Explore CPU Specs and Performance

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Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
Let's talk about the Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y processor, released in Q1/2021. This review covers all its specs and performance metrics, giving you a comprehensive overview. Feel free to dive into the details and compare it with other models. With its base clock frequency 1.10 GHz, core count , and memory support for DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM, LPDDR3-1866, this CPU packs a punch. It's compatible with Socket BGA 1515 motherboards and has a thermal design power (TDP) of 5 W.

Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y specs

Complete list of technical specifications

CPU generation and family

Information about the Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y segment (for desktops or laptops) and the CPU family, along with the sales starting date.

Specification Value
Name Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
Family Intel Pentium
CPU group Intel Pentium 6000Y
Segment Mobile
Generation 10
Predecessor --
Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Technical and quantitative specifications of the Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y: number of cores and threads, base and maximum frequencies. The higher these specifications are, the more powerful your CPU will be.

Specification Value
CPU Cores / Threads 2 / 4
Core architecture normal
Cores 2x
Hyperthreading / SMT Yes
Overclocking No
Frequency 1.10 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core) 3.40 GHz
Turbo Frequency (2 Cores) 2.40 GHz

Internal Graphics

Common specifications for the integrated graphics card in Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y along with supported interfaces and connection options. This block has no effect on the final efficiency of the CPU.

Specification Value
GPU name Intel HD Graphics 615
GPU frequency 0.30 GHz
GPU (Turbo) 0.90 GHz
Execution units 24
Shader 192
Max. GPU Memory 16 GB
Max. displays 3
Generation 9.5
Direct X 12
Technology 14nm
Release date Q2/2016

Hardware codec support

List of video codecs supported by the Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y CPU. Hardware support of video decoding by embedded graphics cards directly affects the speed and quality of rendering videos.

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

Memory & PCIe

Memory type, clock frequency, multi-channel features, and PCIe version of the Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y. The higher these numbers are, the better your CPU will be. Keep in mind that the maximum memory and frequency may also depend on the model of the motherboard.

Specification Value
Memory type DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM, LPDDR3-1866
Max. Memory 16 GB
Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
Bandwidth 33.3 GB/s
ECC No
PCIe 3.0 x 10
AES-NI Yes

Thermal Management

Let's find out what TDP has the Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y? The Thermal Design Power (TDP) indicates the maximum amount of heat that should be dissipated by the chip cooling system. However, the value of TDP gives only a rough indication of the real power consumption of the CPU.

Specification Value
TDP (PL1) 5 W
TDP (PL2) --
TDP up 7 W
TDP down 3.5 W
Tjunction max. 100 \xc2\xb0C

Technical details

Here you can find a comparison of 2nd and 3rd level cache sizes for the Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y CPU along with a list of ISA extensions.

Specification Value
Technology 14 nm
Chip design Monolithic
Socket BGA 1515
L2-Cache --
L3-Cache 4.00 MB
Architecture Amber Lake U
Operating systems
Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date Q1/2021
Release price --
Part Number --
Documents --

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