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Intel Core i7-6950X vs Intel Pentium E6600

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i7-6950X
Rank 2 - 36 %
Intel Pentium E6600
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i7-6950X
Rank 2 - 8 %
Intel Pentium E6600
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Intel Core i7-6950X
10C / 20T · 3.50 GHz
1,237
Intel Pentium E6600
2C / 2T · 3.06 GHz
362
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Intel Core i7-6950X
10C / 20T · 3.50 GHz
7,421
Intel Pentium E6600
2C / 2T · 3.06 GHz
614
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

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

Intel Core i7-6950X
10C / 20T · 3.50 GHz
974
Intel Pentium E6600
2C / 2T · 3.06 GHz
422
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

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

Intel Core i7-6950X
10C / 20T · 3.50 GHz
8,993
Intel Pentium E6600
2C / 2T · 3.06 GHz
761
CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Intel Core i7-6950X
10C / 20T · 3.00 GHz
5,950
Intel Pentium E6600
2C / 2T · 3.06 GHz
498

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Intel Core i7-6950XIntel Pentium E6600
FamilyIntel Core i7 Extreme Edition (24)Intel Pentium (150)
CPU groupIntel Core i 6000X (1)Intel Pentium E5000/E6000 (13)
ArchitectureBroadwell EWolfdale (Penryn)
Technology14 nm45 nm
SegmentDesktopDesktop
SocketLGA 2011-3LGA 775
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Intel Core i7-6950XIntel Pentium E6600
CPU Cores / Threads10 / 202 / 2
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturenormalnormal
Cores: 10x 2x Penryn
Frequency: 3.00 GHz 3.06 GHz
Turbo (1 Core): 3.50 GHz
Turbo (All Cores): 3.50 GHz
L2-Cache2.00 MB
L3-Cache25.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Intel Core i7-6950XIntel Pentium E6600
GPU nameno iGPUno iGPU
GPU frequency
CUs / Shader / /
Raytracing
Max. displays
Max. GPU Memory
Technology
Release date

NPU AI performance

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Intel Core i7-6950XIntel Pentium E6600
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Intel Core i7-6950XIntel Pentium E6600
MemoryDDR4-2400 (76.8 GB/s)
DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)
DDR2-800 (12.8 GB/s)
Max. Memory128 GB16 GB
Memory channels42
ECCNoNo
PCIe3.0 x 40
PCIe Bandwidth39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

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Intel Core i7-6950XIntel Pentium E6600
TDP140 W65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

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Intel Core i7-6950XIntel Pentium E6600
Chip designMonolithicMonolithic
AES-NI
Operating systemsWindows 10, LinuxWindows 10, Linux
Instruction setx86-64 (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3
Release dateQ2/2016Q1/2010
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheetTechnical data sheet

Your rating

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Intel Core i7-6950X
Intel Core i7-6950X
10C / 20T · 3.00 - 3.50 GHz
Intel Pentium E6600
Intel Pentium E6600
2C / 2T · 3.06 GHz

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