Intel Core i5 6600K specifications and performance
Intel Core i5 6600K is a 4 cores and 4 threads CPU processor produced by Intel. Intel Core i5 6600K was released on 2015-08-05, the fabrication process is 14nm (nanometer), the CPU codename is Skylake, the instruction set architecture is x86-64, and the CPU's integrated graphics (iGPU) is HD Graphics 530.
| Vendor / Supplier | Intel |
|---|---|
| Short name | i5 6600k |
| Release date | 2015-08-05 |
| CPU code name | Skylake |
| Fabrication process | 14nm (nanometer) |
| Instruction set architecture | x86-64 |
| Market | Desktop |
| Integrated Graphics (iGPU) | HD Graphics 530 |
| Total number of cores | 4 cores |
|---|---|
| Total number of threads | 4 threads |
| Number of performance cores | 4 cores |
| Number of performance core threads | 4 threads |
| Performance core base frequency / main frequency | 3.5GHz |
| Performance core maximum turbo frequency | 3.9GHz |
| Number of energy efficiency cores | |
| Number of energy-efficient core threads | |
| Energy efficiency core basic frequency / main frequency | |
| Energy efficiency core maximum turbo frequency |
| Bus frequency | 100MHz |
|---|---|
| L1 Cache | 64 KB |
| L2 Cache | 256 KB |
| L3 Cache | 6 MB |
| Unlock multiplier | No |
| Maximum supported memory | 64GB |
|---|---|
| Memory frequency support |
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| Maximum number of memory channels | 2 |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 34.1GB/s |
| ECC support | No |
| CPU Socket | LGA-1151 |
|---|---|
| Default thermal design power / TDP PL1 | 91W |
| Maximum Turbo Power Consumption / TDP PL2 | |
| Maximum temperature | |
| PCIe interface | PCIe 3.0 |
| PCIe lane count | 16 |
| Integrated Graphics (iGPU) | Intel HD Graphics 530 |
|---|---|
| Base frequency | |
| Maximum acceleration frequency | 1150MHz |
| Number of execution units | |
| Stream Processors / Shading Units | |
| Texture Units / TMUs | |
| Raster Operations Units / ROPs | |
| Total Graphics Power / TGP | |
| FP32 computing performance |
0
|
| Single core performance score |
1037
|
|---|---|
| Multi-core performance score |
3943
|
| Single core performance score |
2327
|
|---|---|
| Multi-core performance score |
6324
|
| Integer math | 16 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 14 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 31 Million Primes/sec (Millions find prime numbers per second) |
| Random string sorting | 10.6 Million Strings/sec (Millions random string sorting per second) |
| Data encryption | 1.8 GBytes/sec (Gigabits per second) |
| Data compression | 86.5 MBytes/sec (megabits per second) |
| Physics simulation | 509 Frames/sec (FPS) |
| Extended instruction test | 7.5 Billion Matrices/sec (Billions matrix operations per second) |
| Single core performance |
1486
|
|---|---|
| Multi-core performance |
4409
|
| File compression | 363.1 MB/sec (megabits per second) |
| clang compilation | 29.9 Klines/sec (thousands lines per second) |
| HTML5 browsing | 98.1 pages/sec (pages per second) |
| PDF rendering | 150.1 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second) |
| Text processing | 149.8 pages/sec (pages per second) |
| Background blur | 28.1 images/sec (images per second) |
| Photo processing | 47.6 images/sec (images per second) |
| Ray tracing | 4.81 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second) |