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Intel Core i7-6700K vs Apple M3

Last updated: 2026-06-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 51 %

Intel Core i7-6700K

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M3

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 46 %

Intel Core i7-6700K

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M3

Cinebench 2026 Single-Thread
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

281 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

557 pts

Cinebench 2026 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

1,372 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

2,672 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

1,124 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

1,965 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

5,640 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

10,437 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

1,347

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

3,125

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

4,665

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

11,863

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

4C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

1,151

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

2,150

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

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

4,459

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

10,450

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 530

442

Apple M3 (10 Core)

3,550

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6700K	Apple M3
Family	Intel Core i7 (300)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i 6000 (24)	Apple M3 (6)
Architecture	Skylake S	M3
Technology	14 nm	3 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1151
Predecessor	Intel Core i7-4770K	Apple M2
Successor	Intel Core i7-7700K	Apple M4

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6700K	Apple M3
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 8	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x 4.00 - 4.20 GHz	4x Ibiza P-Core 0.70 - 4.06 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Ibiza E-Core 0.74 - 2.75 GHz
L2-Cache		20.00 MB
L3-Cache	8.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6700K	Apple M3
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 530	Apple M3 (10 Core)
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.15 GHz	0.39 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	160 / 1280
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	3	2
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	24 GB
Technology	14 nm	3 nm
Release date	Q3/2015	Q4/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6700K	Apple M3
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 35 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6700K	Apple M3
Memory	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s) DDR3-1866 (29.9 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	24 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6700K	Apple M3
TDP	91 W	22 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down		15 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6700K	Apple M3
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q3/2015	Q4/2023
Release price	420 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i7-6700K is 4.3 stars (84 ratings), while Apple M3 has received 4.6 stars (1638 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i7-6700K
4C / 8T · 4.00 - 4.20 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M3
8C / 8T · 0.70 - 4.06 GHz

★★★★★