Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y vs AMD RX-418GD

Comparative analysis of Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y and AMD RX-418GD processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Graphics, Graphics interfaces, Graphics image quality, Graphics API support, Compatibility, Peripherals, Security & Reliability, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y

  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 7x lower typical power consumption: 5 Watt vs 35 Watt
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 5 Watt vs 35 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD RX-418GD

  • Around 94018% higher clock speed: 3200 MHz vs 3.40 GHz
Maximum frequency 3200 MHz vs 3.40 GHz

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
CPU 2: AMD RX-418GD

Name Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y AMD RX-418GD
PassMark - Single thread mark 1752
PassMark - CPU mark 3012
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1050
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1050
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1543
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1543
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 4536
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 4536

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y AMD RX-418GD

Essentials

Architecture codename Amber Lake Y Merlin Falcon
Launch date Q1'21 21 October 2015
Place in performance rating 1385 1150
Processor Number 6500Y
Series Intel Pentium Gold Processor Series
Status Launched
Vertical segment Mobile Embedded
Family AMD R-Series
Price now RX-418GD

Performance

64 bit support
Base frequency 1.10 GHz 1800 MHz
Bus Speed 4 GT/s
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Maximum core temperature 100°C
Maximum frequency 3.40 GHz 3200 MHz
Die size 1073 mm2
L1 cache 320 KB
L2 cache 2 MB
Number of cores 4
Number of threads 4

Memory

Max memory channels 2 2
Maximum memory bandwidth 33.3 GB/s 38.4 GB/s
Maximum memory size 16 GB
Supported memory types LPDDR3-1866, DDR3L-1600 DDR3-2133, DDR4-2400
ECC memory support

Graphics

Device ID 0x591C
Execution Units 23
Graphics base frequency 300 MHz 800 MHz
Graphics max dynamic frequency 900 MHz
Intel® Clear Video HD technology
Intel® Clear Video technology
Intel® Quick Sync Video
Max video memory 16 GB
Processor graphics Intel UHD Graphics 615 Radeon R6 series
Number of pipelines 384
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Codec Engine (VCE)

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
DVI
eDP
HDMI
Number of displays supported 3 3

Graphics image quality

4K resolution support
Max resolution over DisplayPort 3840x2160@60Hz
Max resolution over eDP 3840x2160@60Hz

Graphics API support

DirectX 12 12
OpenGL 4.5 4.4

Compatibility

Configurable TDP-down 3.5 Watt
Configurable TDP-down Frequency 600 MHz
Configurable TDP-up 7 Watt
Configurable TDP-up Frequency 1.60 GHz
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 1
Package Size 20mm X 16.5mm micro-BGA
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 5 Watt 35 Watt
Configurable TDP 12-35 Watt
Sockets supported BGA (FP4)

Peripherals

Max number of PCIe lanes 10
PCI Express revision 3.0 3.0
PCIe configurations 1x4, 2x2, 1x2+2x1 and 4x1
UART
USB revision 3.0

Security & Reliability

Execute Disable Bit (EDB)
Intel® Identity Protection technology
Intel® Memory Protection Extensions (Intel® MPX)
Intel® OS Guard
Intel® Secure Key technology
Intel® Trusted Execution technology (TXT)

Advanced Technologies

Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology
Idle States
Instruction set extensions Intel SSE4.1, Intel SSE4.2, Intel AVX2
Intel 64
Intel® AES New Instructions
Intel® Flex Memory Access
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology
Intel® Stable Image Platform Program (SIPP)
Intel® Turbo Boost technology
Speed Shift technology
Thermal Monitoring
Enhanced Virus Protection (EVP)
Fused Multiply-Add 3 (FMA3)
Fused Multiply-Add 4 (FMA4)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)

Virtualization

Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)
AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)