CPULaptopReleased 2021

Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y

2C/4T · 3.4 GHz · 5 W

The Pentium Gold 6500Y is a dual-core, four-thread Amber Lake-Y processor that Intel launched in the first quarter of 2021 for fanless tablets, 2-in-1s and thin notebooks. Its 5 W design power can be configured down to 3.5 W or up to 7 W by the device maker, and it pairs two Hyper-Threaded cores with Intel UHD Graphics 615.

General

Manufacturer
Intel
Model
Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
Segment
Laptop
Generation
Pentium/Celeron (Amber Lake)
Codename
Amber Lake-Y
Architecture
x86_64
Microarchitecture
Kaby Lake (Skylake)
Release date
2021
Price
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Cores & clocks

Cores / threads
2 cores / 4 threads
Base clock
1.10 GHz
Boost clock
3.40 GHz
TDP (design W)
5 W
Max: 7 W
Unlocked
✕ No
L2 cache
0.5 MB
L3 cache
4 MB
Technology (nm)
14 nm
Intel 14 nm

Platform

Socket
FCBGA1515
2-CPU (multi-socket)
✕ No
Integrated GPU
UHD Graphics 615 (Gen9.5)
Clock: 900 MHz
Memory type
LPDDR3-1866, DDR3L-1600
2-channel
Memory size
Up to 16 GB
ECC memory
✕ No
PCIe
PCIe 3.0 (10 lanes)

Instructions & AI

Instruction extensions
SSE4.1SSE4.2AVX2AES-NI
NPU
None

OS support

Windows
Windows 10Windows 11 24H2Windows 11 25H2Windows 11 26H2
ChromeOS
ChromeOS
Linux
UbuntuFedoraArch Linux
Notes
Covered by Microsoft's supported-processor lists for Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 under the Pentium Gold 6000Y series; Windows 11 26H2 keeps the same hardware requirements. Windows 10 and mainstream Linux distributions are supported, and ChromeOS Flex installs on generic x86-64 hardware. macOS is tracked for Apple-designed cores only.

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