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AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 6650U vs Intel Core i5-1230U

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 6650U

► remove from comparison AMD R5 PRO 6650U

The AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 6650U is a processor for thin and light laptops based of the Rembrandt generation. The Ryzen has six out of a possible eight cores based on the Zen 3+ microarchitecture. They are clocked at 2.9 (guaranteed base clock) to 4.5 GHz (Turbo) and support SMT / Hyperthreading (12 threads). The chip is manufactured on the modern 6 nm TSMC process. The Ryzen 5 PRO 6650U is the professional version of the consumer R5 6600U with additional management features and the Microsoft Pluton Security processor. Compared to the similar R5 6650H, the 6850U offers a lower base clock speed and a lower TDP.

The new Zen 3+ is a refresh of the Zen 3 architecture and should not offer a lot of changes. The chip itself however, offers a lot of new features, like support for USB 4 (40 Gbps), PCI-E Gen 4, DDR5-4800MT/s or LPDDR5-6400MT/s, WiFi 6E, Bluetooth LE 5.2, DisplayPort 2, and AV1 decode.

Performance

The average 6650U in our database is very close to the Core i7-1260P and the Core i7-10870H, as far as multi-thread benchmark scores are concerned. This is a really good result, as of late 2022.

Thanks to its decent cooling solution and a long-term CPU power limit of 32 W, the ThinkPad T16 G1 is among the fastest laptops built around the 6650U that we know of. It can be about 20% faster in CPU-bound workloads than the slowest system featuring the same chip in our database, as of August 2023.

In the 6000 series, AMD finally switched to the current RDNA 2 graphics architecture for the iGPU. The 6650U only offers the small Radeon 660M with 6 of the 12 CUs enabled and 1.9 GHz max. clock rate.

The TDP of the APU is specified at 15 - 28 Watts (default). The power efficiency should be very good, thanks to the improved 6nm process and additional power saving features in the 6000 series.

Intel Core i5-1230U

► remove from comparison Intel i5-1230U

The Intel Core i5-1230U is a mobile CPU for thin and light laptops based on the Alder Lake architecture. It was announced in early 2022 and offers 2  performance cores (P-cores, Golden Cove architecture) and 8 efficient cores (E-cores, Gracemont architecture). The P-cores support Hyper-Threading leading to 12 supported threads when combined with the E-cores. The clock rate ranges from 1 to 4.4 GHz on the performance cluster and 0.7 to 3.3 GHz on the efficient cluster. The performance of the E-cores should be similar to old Skylake cores (compare to the Core i7-6700HQ). All cores can use up to 12 MB L3 cache.  Compared to the similar Core i5-1240U, the 1230U offers a lower base CPU clock speed and only "Essentials" vPro management features.

Performance

Compared to the old 7 Watt Comet Lake-Y series (like the i7-10510Y), the performance should be clearly better thanks to the 10 cores and the improved architecture of the P-cores. Compared to the 15 W U-series (like the similar specified Core i5-1235U) the sustained performance will be clearly limited by the 9 Watt TDP. As always, the performance will also greatly depend on the cooling solution, especially for fanless laptops and tablets.

Features

The integrated memory controller supports various memory types up to DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200, LPDDR5-5200, and LPDDR4x-4267. The Thread Director (in hardware) can support the operating system to decide which thread to use on the performance or efficient cores for the best performance. For AI tasks, the CPU also integrates GNA 3.0 and DL Boost (via AVX2). Quick Sync in version 8 is the same as in the Rocket Lake CPUs and supports MPEG-2, AVC, VC-1 decode, JPEG, VP8 decode, VP9, HEVC, and AV1 decode in hardware. The CPU only supports PCIe 4.0 (x8 for a GPU and two x4 for SSDs).

The integrated graphics card is based on the Xe-architecture and offers 80 of the 96 EUs (Execution Units) operating at up to 0.85 GHz.

The CPU is rated at 9 W base power (TDP, PL1) and 29 W max. Turbo power (PL2) and the whole SoC is manufactured on a 10nm process at Intel, which is known as Intel 7.

ModelAMD Ryzen 5 PRO 6650UIntel Core i5-1230U
SeriesAMD Rembrandt (Zen 3+)Intel Alder Lake-M
CodenameRembrandt-U PRO (Zen 3+)Alder Lake-U
Series: Alder Lake-M Alder Lake-U
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U compare2.7 - 4.7 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 6650U « 2.9 - 4.5 GHz6 / 12 cores16 MB L3
Intel Core i7-1265U compare1.3 - 4.8 GHz10 / 12 cores12 MB L3
Intel Core i7-1255U compare1.2 - 4.7 GHz10 / 12 cores12 MB L3
Intel Core i5-1245U compare1.2 - 4.4 GHz10 / 12 cores12 MB L3
Intel Core i5-1235U compare0.9 - 4.4 GHz10 / 12 cores12 MB L3
Intel Core i7-1260U compare0.8 - 4.7 GHz10 / 12 cores12 MB L3
Intel Core i7-1250U compare0.8 - 4.7 GHz10 / 12 cores12 MB L3
Intel Core i5-1240U compare0.8 - 4.4 GHz10 / 12 cores12 MB L3
Intel Core i5-1230U « 0.7 - 4.4 GHz10 / 12 cores12 MB L3
Intel Core i3-1215U compare0.9 - 4.4 GHz6 / 8 cores10 MB L3
Intel Pentium 8505 compare0.9 - 4.4 GHz5 / 6 cores8 MB L3
Intel Core i3-1210U compare0.7 - 4.4 GHz6 / 8 cores10 MB L3
Intel Pentium 8500 compare0.7 - 4.4 GHz5 / 6 cores8 MB L3
Intel Celeron 7305 compare0.9 - 1.1 GHz5 / 5 cores8 MB L3
Intel Celeron 7300 compare0.7 - 1 GHz5 / 5 cores8 MB L3
Clock2900 - 4500 MHz700 - 4400 MHz
L1 Cache384 KB928 KB
L2 Cache3 MB9.5 MB
L3 Cache16 MB12 MB
Cores / Threads6 / 1210 / 12
TDP28 Watt9 Watt
Technology6 nm10 nm
max. Temp.95 °C100 °C
SocketFP7/FP7r2BGA1781
FeaturesDDR5-4800/LPDDR5-6400 RAM (incl. ECC), PCIe 4, PRO, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHALPDDR4x-4266/LPDDR5-5200 RAM, PCIe 4, Thr. Director, DL Boost, GNA, vPro Essen., MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, SHA
iGPUAMD Radeon 660M ( - 1900 MHz)Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs ( - 850 MHz)
Architecturex86x86
Announced
Manufacturerwww.amd.comark.intel.com

Benchmarks

Performance Rating - CB R15 + R20 + 7-Zip + X265 + Blender + 3DM11 CPU - R5 PRO 6650U
37 pt (51%)
Performance Rating - CB R15 + R20 + 7-Zip + X265 + Blender + 3DM11 CPU - i5-1230U
29.9 pt (41%)
Cinebench R23 - Cinebench R23 Multi Core
min: 7805     avg: 8762     median: 8854 (8%)     max: 9534 Points
min: 3066     avg: 4911     median: 4402 (4%)     max: 7264 Points
Cinebench R23 - Cinebench R23 Single Core
min: 1439     avg: 1460     median: 1463 (62%)     max: 1476 Points
min: 1135     avg: 1319     median: 1310 (56%)     max: 1512 Points
Cinebench R20 - Cinebench R20 CPU (Single Core)
min: 548     avg: 567     median: 570 (63%)     max: 578 Points
min: 441     avg: 496.7     median: 469 (52%)     max: 580 Points
Cinebench R20 - Cinebench R20 CPU (Multi Core)
min: 3057     avg: 3399     median: 3427.5 (8%)     max: 3684 Points
min: 1175     avg: 1877     median: 1653 (4%)     max: 2802 Points
Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64 Bit
min: 1299     avg: 1443     median: 1459.5 (9%)     max: 1555 Points
min: 433     avg: 734     median: 514 (3%)     max: 1254 Points
Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64 Bit
min: 230     avg: 232.3     median: 232.5 (70%)     max: 234 Points
min: 120.1     avg: 176     median: 186.8 (56%)     max: 221 Points
Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 CPU Multi 64 Bit
16.2 Points (21%)
Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 CPU Single 64 Bit
2.8 Points (69%)
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Single (32bit)
6062 Points (37%)
7290 Points (44%)
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Multi (32bit)
32262 Points (23%)
17243 Points (12%)
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Multi (64bit)
28930 Points (20%)
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Single (64bit)
12037 Points (15%)
wPrime 2.10 - wPrime 2.0 1024m *
243.3 s (3%)
576 s (7%)
wPrime 2.10 - wPrime 2.0 32m *
7.7 s (2%)
14 s (3%)
WinRAR - WinRAR 4.0
5343 Points (8%)
4985 Points (8%)
7-Zip 18.03 - 7-Zip 18.03 Multli Thread 4 runs
min: 32613     avg: 37464     median: 37856.5 (22%)     max: 41530 MIPS
min: 12470     avg: 22356     median: 20092 (12%)     max: 34505 MIPS
7-Zip 18.03 - 7-Zip 18.03 Single Thread 4 runs
min: 5175     avg: 5265     median: 5228.5 (63%)     max: 5427 MIPS
min: 3873     avg: 4237     median: 3969 (47%)     max: 4870 MIPS
X264 HD Benchmark 4.0 - x264 Pass 2
86.3 fps (30%)
41.8 fps (15%)
X264 HD Benchmark 4.0 - x264 Pass 1
224.3 fps (52%)
152.7 fps (35%)
HWBOT x265 Benchmark v2.2 - HWBOT x265 4k Preset
min: 8.71     avg: 10.1     median: 9.8 (17%)     max: 11.8 fps
min: 3.59     avg: 6     median: 6 (10%)     max: 8.33 fps
TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt Serpent
0.6 GB/s (0%)
TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt Twofish
1 GB/s (17%)
TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt AES
5.5 GB/s (14%)
Blender - Blender 3.3 Classroom CPU *
min: 565     avg: 740     median: 712.5 (9%)     max: 968 Seconds
min: 1023     avg: 1459     median: 1458.5 (19%)     max: 1894 Seconds
Blender - Blender 2.79 BMW27 CPU *
min: 328     avg: 415.6     median: 397 (3%)     max: 548 Seconds
min: 503     avg: 754     median: 754 (5%)     max: 1005 Seconds
R Benchmark 2.5 - R Benchmark 2.5 *
min: 0.521     avg: 0.5     median: 0.5 (12%)     max: 0.59 sec
min: 0.527     avg: 0.6     median: 0.6 (13%)     max: 0.676 sec
3DMark 06 - CPU - 3DMark 06 - CPU
11322 Points (24%)
6641 Points (14%)
Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 1M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 1M *
7.9 s (2%)
7 s (2%)
Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 2M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 2M *
19.4 s (1%)
15 s (1%)
Super Pi Mod 1.5 XS 32M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 32M *
712 s (3%)
365 s (2%)
3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. CPU no Physx
37700 Points (33%)
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Physics
min: 11332     avg: 12182     median: 12335 (33%)     max: 12727 Points
min: 6656     avg: 9961     median: 10067 (27%)     max: 13161 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
min: 65436     avg: 69641     median: 69640.5 (57%)     max: 73845 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
36896 Points (31%)
3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Physics
min: 9476     avg: 11014     median: 11062 (28%)     max: 12455 Points
min: 4472     avg: 7453     median: 7284 (18%)     max: 10602 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Physics
min: 14814     avg: 17055     median: 16969 (30%)     max: 19469 Points
min: 6737     avg: 12027     median: 13426 (24%)     max: 15917 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy CPU
min: 5400     avg: 5555     median: 5457.5 (23%)     max: 5904 Points
min: 2140     avg: 2983     median: 3017 (13%)     max: 3791 Points
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 1433     avg: 1456     median: 1452.5 (61%)     max: 1487 Points
min: 1454     avg: 1541     median: 1529 (65%)     max: 1640 Points
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 6171     avg: 6594     median: 6488.5 (12%)     max: 7227 Points
min: 4193     avg: 6086     median: 6755 (12%)     max: 7309 Points
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Single-Core
1417 Points (6%)
min: 1412     avg: 1472     median: 1471.5 (6%)     max: 1531 Points
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
7218 Points (23%)
min: 3814     avg: 5506     median: 5505.5 (17%)     max: 7197 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
5910 Points (59%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
28857 Points (32%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
21447 Points (38%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
5120 Points (100%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Multi-Core
24369 Points (38%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Single-Core
5835 Points (87%)
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
min: 615     avg: 646     median: 631.5 (1%)     max: 707 ms
min: 604     avg: 641     median: 640.5 (1%)     max: 677 ms
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
72306 Points (65%)
WebXPRT 4 - WebXPRT 4 Score
min: 176.4     avg: 188.3     median: 185.4 (53%)     max: 206 Points
min: 188.4     avg: 204.2     median: 204.2 (59%)     max: 220 Points
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
min: 225     avg: 233.5     median: 233.5 (49%)     max: 242 Points
min: 219     avg: 233.5     median: 233.5 (49%)     max: 248 Points
CrossMark - CrossMark Overall
min: 1338     avg: 1396     median: 1419 (54%)     max: 1432 Points
min: 1117     avg: 1271     median: 1312 (50%)     max: 1383 Points
Power Consumption - Prime95 Power Consumption - external Monitor *
min: 36.5     avg: 41.3     median: 39.5 (7%)     max: 49.6 Watt
min: 14.7     avg: 25.3     median: 23.2 (4%)     max: 38 Watt
Power Consumption - Cinebench R15 Multi Power Consumption - external Monitor *
min: 43.6     avg: 49.6     median: 50.5 (9%)     max: 54.7 Watt
min: 17.8     avg: 36.4     median: 43.9 (8%)     max: 47.4 Watt
Power Consumption - Idle Power Consumption - external Monitor *
min: 3.19     avg: 4.8     median: 4.8 (3%)     max: 6.59 Watt
min: 2.87     avg: 5.2     median: 5.8 (4%)     max: 6.87 Watt
Power Consumption - Idle Power Consumption 150cd 1min *
min: 3.41     avg: 4.5     median: 4.7 (5%)     max: 5.55 Watt
min: 3.02     avg: 4.4     median: 3.9 (4%)     max: 6.1 Watt
Power Consumption - Cinebench R15 Multi Power Efficiency - external Monitor
min: 28.1     avg: 29.9     median: 29.9 (22%)     max: 31.7 Points per Watt
min: 10.8     avg: 19.7     median: 19.7 (15%)     max: 28.6 Points per Watt

Average Benchmarks AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 6650U → 100% n=35

Average Benchmarks Intel Core i5-1230U → 82% n=35

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