Intel Pentium E6600 vs Intel Core i9-12900HK

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Intel Pentium E6600 Intel Core i9-12900HK

CPU comparison

In this CPU comparison, we compare the Intel Pentium E6600 and the Intel Core i9-12900HK and use benchmarks to check which processor is faster.

We compare the Intel Pentium E6600 2 core processor released in Q1/2010 with the Intel Core i9-12900HK which has 14 CPU cores and was introduced in Q1/2022.
Intel Pentium (150) Family Intel Core i9 (78)
Intel Pentium E5000/E6000 (13) CPU group Intel Core i 12000H (23)
2 Generation 12
Wolfdale (Penryn) Architecture Alder Lake H
Desktop / Server Segment Mobile
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor Intel Core i9-13900HK

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Pentium E6600 is a 2 core processor with a clock frequency of 3.06 GHz. The processor can compute 2 threads at the same time. The Intel Core i9-12900HK clocks with 2.50 GHz (5.00 GHz), has 14 CPU cores and can calculate 20 threads in parallel.

Intel Pentium E6600 Characteristic Intel Core i9-12900HK
2 Cores 14
2 Threads 20
normal Core architecture hybrid (big.LITTLE)
No Hyperthreading Yes
Yes Overclocking ? No
3.06 GHz
2x Penryn
A-Core 2.50 GHz (5.00 GHz)
6x Golden Cove
-- B-Core 1.80 GHz (3.80 GHz)
8x Gracemont

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

Intel Pentium E6600 Characteristic Intel Core i9-12900HK
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

Graphics (iGPU) integrated into the processor not only enable image output without having to rely on a dedicated graphics solution, but can also efficiently accelerate video playback.

no iGPU GPU Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96 (Alder Lake)
GPU frequency 0.40 GHz
-- GPU (Turbo) 1.45 GHz
-- GPU Generation 13
Technology 10 nm
Max. displays 4
-- Compute units 96
-- Shader 768
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
-- Max. GPU Memory 32 GB
-- DirectX Version 12.1

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

no iGPU GPU Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96 (Alder Lake)
No Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
No Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
No Codec h264 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP9 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP8 Decode
No Codec AV1 Decode
No Codec AVC Decode / Encode
No Codec VC-1 Decode
No Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

Up to 16 GB of memory in a maximum of 2 memory channels is supported by the Intel Pentium E6600, while the Intel Core i9-12900HK supports a maximum of 64 GB of memory with a maximum memory bandwidth of 83.2 GB/s enabled.

Intel Pentium E6600 Characteristic Intel Core i9-12900HK
DDR3-1333, DDR2-800 Memory LPDDR5-5200, LPDDR4X-4266, DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200
16 GB Max. Memory 64 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
21.3 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 83.2 GB/s
No ECC No
2.00 MB L2 Cache 11.50 MB
-- L3 Cache 24.00 MB
-- PCIe version 4.0
-- PCIe lanes 28
-- PCIe Bandwidth 55.1 GB/s

Thermal Management

The Intel Pentium E6600 has a TDP of 65 W. The TDP of the Intel Core i9-12900HK is 45 W. System integrators use the TDP of the processor as a guide when dimensioning the cooling solution.

Intel Pentium E6600 Characteristic Intel Core i9-12900HK
65 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 45 W
-- TDP (PL2) 115 W
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. 100 °C

Technical details

The Intel Pentium E6600 has 2.00 MB cache and is manufactured in 45 nm. The cache of Intel Core i9-12900HK is at 35.50 MB. The processor is manufactured in 10 nm.

Intel Pentium E6600 Characteristic Intel Core i9-12900HK
45 nm Technology 10 nm
Monolithic Chip design Monolithic
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3 ISA extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX2+
LGA 775 Socket BGA 1744
VT-x Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
No AES-NI Yes
Windows 10, Linux Operating systems Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q1/2010 Release date Q1/2022
-- Release price 635 $
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
Intel Pentium E6600 (20%)
Intel Core i9-12900HK (100%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 3 CPU benchmarks
Intel Pentium E6600 (5%)
Intel Core i9-12900HK (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Pentium E6600 Intel Pentium E6600
2C 2T @ 3.06 GHz
422 (24%)
Intel Core i9-12900HK Intel Core i9-12900HK
14C 20T @ 5.00 GHz
1754 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Pentium E6600 Intel Pentium E6600
2C 2T @ 3.06 GHz
761 (6%)
Intel Core i9-12900HK Intel Core i9-12900HK
14C 20T @ 3.80 GHz
12662 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Intel Pentium E6600 Intel Pentium E6600
2C 2T @ 3.06 GHz
362 (15%)
Intel Core i9-12900HK Intel Core i9-12900HK
14C 20T @ 5.00 GHz
2426 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Intel Pentium E6600 Intel Pentium E6600
2C 2T @ 3.06 GHz
614 (5%)
Intel Core i9-12900HK Intel Core i9-12900HK
14C 20T @ 3.80 GHz
11894 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
Intel Pentium E6600 Intel Pentium E6600
2C 2T @ 3.06 GHz
1120 (4%)
Intel Core i9-12900HK Intel Core i9-12900HK
14C 20T @ 3.80 GHz
28632 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Pentium E6600 Intel Pentium E6600
2C 2T @ 3.06 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i9-12900HK Intel Core i9-12900HK
14C 20T @ 5.00 GHz
1938 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Pentium E6600 Intel Pentium E6600
2C 2T @ 3.06 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i9-12900HK Intel Core i9-12900HK
14C 20T @ 3.80 GHz
18197 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Pentium E6600 Intel Pentium E6600
2C 2T @ 3.06 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i9-12900HK Intel Core i9-12900HK
14C 20T @ 5.00 GHz
710 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Pentium E6600 Intel Pentium E6600
2C 2T @ 3.06 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i9-12900HK Intel Core i9-12900HK
14C 20T @ 3.80 GHz
6892 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Intel Pentium E6600 Intel Pentium E6600
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i9-12900HK Intel Core i9-12900HK
Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96 (Alder Lake) @ 1.45 GHz
2223 (100%)

Blender 3.1 Benchmark

In the Blender Benchmark 3.1, the scenes "monster", "junkshop" and "classroom" are rendered and the time required by the system is measured. In our benchmark we test the CPU and not the graphics card. Blender 3.1 was presented as a standalone version in March 2022.
Intel Pentium E6600 Intel Pentium E6600
2C 2T @ 3.06 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i9-12900HK Intel Core i9-12900HK
14C 20T @ 3.80 GHz
260 (100%)

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.
Intel Pentium E6600 Intel Pentium E6600
2C 2T @ 3.06 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i9-12900HK Intel Core i9-12900HK
14C 20T @ 3.80 GHz
182 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Intel Pentium E6600 Intel Pentium E6600
2C 2T @ 3.06 GHz
498 (100%)
Intel Core i9-12900HK Intel Core i9-12900HK
14C 20T @ 2.50 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Pentium E6600 Intel Pentium E6600
2C 2T @ 3.06 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i9-12900HK Intel Core i9-12900HK
14C 20T @ 5.00 GHz
257 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Pentium E6600 Intel Pentium E6600
2C 2T @ 3.06 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i9-12900HK Intel Core i9-12900HK
14C 20T @ 3.80 GHz
2639 (100%)

Devices using this processor

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