Intel Core i7 6700HQ specifications and performance

Intel Core i7 6700HQ is a 4 cores and 8 threads CPU processor produced by Intel. Intel Core i7 6700HQ was released on 2015-09-01, 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.

Basic Information

Vendor / Supplier Intel
Short name i7 6700hq
Release date 2015-09-01
CPU code name Skylake
Fabrication process 14nm (nanometer)
Instruction set architecture x86-64
Market Laptop
Integrated Graphics (iGPU) HD Graphics 530

CPU core specifications

Total number of cores 4 cores
Total number of threads 8 threads
Number of performance cores 4 cores
Number of performance core threads 8 threads
Performance core base frequency / main frequency 2.6GHz
Performance core maximum turbo frequency 3.5GHz
Number of energy efficiency cores
Number of energy-efficient core threads
Energy efficiency core basic frequency / main frequency
Energy efficiency core maximum turbo frequency

CPU cache and frequency

Bus frequency
L1 Cache 128 KB
L2 Cache 256 KB
L3 Cache 6 MB
Unlock multiplier No

Memory specifications

Maximum supported memory 64GB
Memory frequency support
  • - DDR4-2133MHz
  • - LPDDR3-1866MHz
  • - DDR3L-1600MHz
Maximum number of memory channels 2
Maximum memory bandwidth 34.1GB/s
ECC support No

Package specifications

CPU Socket BGA-1440
Default thermal design power / TDP PL1 45W
Maximum Turbo Power Consumption / TDP PL2
Maximum temperature 100°C
PCIe interface PCIe 3.0
PCIe lane count 16

Integrated Graphics specifications

Integrated Graphics (iGPU) Intel HD Graphics 530
Base frequency
Maximum acceleration frequency 1050MHz
Number of execution units
Stream Processors / Shading Units
Texture Units / TMUs
Raster Operations Units / ROPs
Total Graphics Power / TGP
FP32 computing performance
0

Cinebench R23 performance test

Single core performance score
914
Multi-core performance score
4294

PassMark performance test

Single core performance score
1913
Multi-core performance score
6524
Integer math 21 GOps/sec
Floating point math 13 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 21 Million Primes/sec (Millions find prime numbers per second)
Random string sorting 11.8 Million Strings/sec (Millions random string sorting per second)
Data encryption 2.2 GBytes/sec (Gigabits per second)
Data compression 91.4 MBytes/sec (megabits per second)
Physics simulation 481 Frames/sec (FPS)
Extended instruction test 5.9 Billion Matrices/sec (Billions matrix operations per second)

GeekBench v6 performance test

Single core performance
1731
Multi-core performance
4058
File compression 395.9 MB/sec (megabits per second)
clang compilation 32.4 Klines/sec (thousands lines per second)
HTML5 browsing 95.8 pages/sec (pages per second)
PDF rendering 131.9 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second)
Text processing 173 pages/sec (pages per second)
Background blur 20.8 images/sec (images per second)
Photo processing 35.3 images/sec (images per second)
Ray tracing 4.66 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second)