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Intel Xeon CPU Max 9460 vs Intel Core i5-6600K

Last updated: 2026-07-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

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Intel Xeon CPU Max 9460

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Intel Core i5-6600K

Multi-core performance

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Intel Xeon CPU Max 9460

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Intel Core i5-6600K

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

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

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Xeon CPU Max 9460	Intel Core i5-6600K
Family	Intel Xeon CPU Max (5)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Intel Xeon CPU Max 9000 (5)	Intel Core i 6000 (24)
Architecture	Sapphire Rapids	Skylake S
Technology	10 nm	14 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	LGA 4677	LGA 1151
Predecessor
Successor		Intel Core i5-7600K

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Xeon CPU Max 9460	Intel Core i5-6600K
CPU Cores / Threads	40 / 80	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	40x	4x
Frequency:	2.20 GHz	3.50 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	3.50 GHz	3.90 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):		3.60 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	97.50 MB	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Xeon CPU Max 9460	Intel Core i5-6600K
GPU name	no iGPU	Intel HD Graphics 530
GPU frequency		0.35 - 1.15 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays		3
Max. GPU Memory		32 GB
Technology		14 nm
Release date		Q3/2015

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Xeon CPU Max 9460	Intel Core i5-6600K
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Xeon CPU Max 9460	Intel Core i5-6600K
Memory	DDR5-4800 (307.2 GB/s) DDR5-4400 (281.6 GB/s)	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s) DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	4096 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	8	2
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	5.0 x 80	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	315.0 GB/s	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Xeon CPU Max 9460	Intel Core i5-6600K
TDP	350 W	91 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Xeon CPU Max 9460	Intel Core i5-6600K
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q1/2023	Q3/2015
Release price	8750 $	280 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Xeon CPU Max 9460 is 5.0 stars (1 ratings), while Intel Core i5-6600K has received 3.8 stars (35 ratings).

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Intel Xeon CPU Max 9460
40C / 80T · 2.20 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-6600K
4C / 4T · 3.50 - 3.90 GHz

★★★★★