Intel Core i7 6950X specifications and performance
Intel Core i7 6950X is a 10 cores and 20 threads CPU processor produced by Intel. Intel Core i7 6950X was released on 2016-05-30, the fabrication process is 14nm (nanometer), the CPU codename is -, the instruction set architecture is x86-64, and the CPU's integrated graphics (iGPU) is -.
| Vendor / Supplier | Intel |
|---|---|
| Short name | i7 6950x |
| Release date | 2016-05-30 |
| CPU code name | |
| Fabrication process | 14nm (nanometer) |
| Instruction set architecture | x86-64 |
| Market | Desktop |
| Integrated Graphics (iGPU) |
| Total number of cores | 10 cores |
|---|---|
| Total number of threads | 20 threads |
| Number of performance cores | 10 cores |
| Number of performance core threads | 20 threads |
| Performance core base frequency / main frequency | 3.0GHz |
| 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 |
| Bus frequency | 100MHz |
|---|---|
| L1 Cache | 32 KB |
| L2 Cache | 256 KB |
| L3 Cache | 25 MB |
| Unlock multiplier | No |
| Maximum supported memory | 128GB |
|---|---|
| Memory frequency support |
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| Maximum number of memory channels | 4 |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | |
| ECC support | No |
| CPU Socket | LGA-2011-3 |
|---|---|
| Default thermal design power / TDP PL1 | 140W |
| Maximum Turbo Power Consumption / TDP PL2 | |
| Maximum temperature | |
| PCIe interface | PCIe 3.0 |
| PCIe lane count | 40 |
| Integrated Graphics (iGPU) | Intel UHD Graphics 630 |
|---|---|
| Base frequency | 350MHz |
| Maximum acceleration frequency | 1200MHz |
| Number of execution units | 24 |
| Stream Processors / Shading Units | 192 |
| Texture Units / TMUs | 24 |
| Raster Operations Units / ROPs | 3 |
| Total Graphics Power / TGP | 15W |
| FP32 computing performance |
0.38TFLOPS
|
| Single core performance score |
1086
|
|---|---|
| Multi-core performance score |
9853
|
| Single core performance score |
2353
|
|---|---|
| Multi-core performance score |
17486
|
| Integer math | 64 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 41 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 79 Million Primes/sec (Millions find prime numbers per second) |
| Random string sorting | 35.9 Million Strings/sec (Millions random string sorting per second) |
| Data encryption | 5.1 GBytes/sec (Gigabits per second) |
| Data compression | 279.6 MBytes/sec (megabits per second) |
| Physics simulation | 1208 Frames/sec (FPS) |
| Extended instruction test | 17.5 Billion Matrices/sec (Billions matrix operations per second) |
| Single core performance |
1488
|
|---|---|
| Multi-core performance |
6658
|
| File compression | 436 MB/sec (megabits per second) |
| clang compilation | 61.3 Klines/sec (thousands lines per second) |
| HTML5 browsing | 131 pages/sec (pages per second) |
| PDF rendering | 212.8 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second) |
| Text processing | 152.2 pages/sec (pages per second) |
| Background blur | 33 images/sec (images per second) |
| Photo processing | 50.9 images/sec (images per second) |
| Ray tracing | 12.8 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second) |