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Intel Core i5-6442EQ vs Intel Pentium B950

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i5-6442EQ
Rank 2 - 56 %
Intel Pentium B950
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i5-6442EQ
Rank 2 - 28 %
Intel Pentium B950
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

Intel Core i5-6442EQ
4C / 4T · 2.70 GHz
724
Intel Pentium B950
2C / 2T · 2.10 GHz
408
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Intel Core i5-6442EQ
4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz
2,207
Intel Pentium B950
2C / 2T · 2.10 GHz
776
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel Core i5-6442EQ
Intel HD Graphics 530
384
Intel Pentium B950
Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1)
106

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At a glance

Wischen
Intel Core i5-6442EQIntel Pentium B950
FamilyIntel Core i5 (336)Intel Pentium (150)
CPU groupIntel Core i 6000H (15)Intel Pentium 900 (10)
ArchitectureSkylake HSandy Bridge U
Technology14 nm32 nm
SegmentNotebookNotebook
SocketBGA 1440PGA 988
Predecessor
SuccessorIntel Core i5-7442EQ

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Intel Core i5-6442EQIntel Pentium B950
CPU Cores / Threads4 / 42 / 2
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturenormalnormal
Cores: 4x 2x
Frequency: 1.90 GHz 2.10 GHz
Turbo (1 Core): 2.70 GHz
Turbo (All Cores): 2.40 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache6.00 MB2.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Intel Core i5-6442EQIntel Pentium B950
GPU nameIntel HD Graphics 530Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1)
GPU frequency0.35 - 1.00 GHz0.65 - 1.10 GHz
CUs / Shader24 / 1926 / 48
Raytracing
Max. displays32
Max. GPU Memory32 GB2 GB
Technology14 nm32 nm
Release dateQ3/2015Q2/2011

NPU AI performance

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Intel Core i5-6442EQIntel Pentium B950
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Intel Core i5-6442EQIntel Pentium B950
MemoryDDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s)
LPDDR3-1866 (29.9 GB/s)
DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)
DDR3-1066 (17.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory64 GB16 GB
Memory channels22
ECCNoNo
PCIe3.0 x 162.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth15.8 GB/s8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

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Intel Core i5-6442EQIntel Pentium B950
TDP25 W35 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.85 °C

Technical details

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Intel Core i5-6442EQIntel Pentium B950
Chip designMonolithicMonolithic
AES-NI
Operating systemsWindows 10, LinuxWindows 10, Linux
Instruction setx86-64 (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release dateQ4/2015Q2/2011
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheetTechnical data sheet

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Intel Core i5-6442EQ
Intel Core i5-6442EQ
4C / 4T · 1.90 - 2.70 GHz
Intel Pentium B950
Intel Pentium B950
2C / 2T · 2.10 GHz

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