Intel Core i7-6600U Benchmark, Test and specs

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The Intel Core i7-6600U was released in Q3/2015 and has 2 cores. The processor can process 4 threads simultaneously and uses a mainboard with the socket BGA 1356. In the Geekbench 5 benchmark, the Intel Core i7-6600U achieved a result of 820 points (single-core) or 1,513 points (multi-core).
Intel Core i7-6600U

CPU lineage

In this classification you can see to which group of processors the Intel Core i7-6600U belongs. We also show the direct predecessor and successor of Intel Core i7-6600U.

Name: Intel Core i7-6600U
Family: Intel Core i7 (293)
CPU group: Intel Core i 6000U (20)
Architecture: Skylake U
Segment: Mobile
Generation: 6
Predecessor: Intel Core i7-5600U
Successor: Intel Core i7-7600U

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i7-6600U has 2 cores. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i7-6600U is 2.60 GHz (3.40 GHz). An initial performance assessment can be made using the number of CPU cores.

CPU Cores / Threads: 2 / 4
Core architecture: normal
Cores: 2x
Hyperthreading / SMT: Yes
Overclocking: No
Frequency: 2.60 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core): 3.40 GHz
Turbo Frequency (2 Cores): 3.00 GHz

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i7-6600U has an integrated graphics that the system can use to efficiently play back videos. The Intel Core i7-6600U has the Intel HD Graphics 520 installed, which has 24 streaming multiprocessors (192 shaders).

GPU name: Intel HD Graphics 520
GPU frequency: 0.30 GHz
GPU (Turbo): 1.05 GHz
Compute units: 24
Shader: 192
Hardware Raytracing: No
Release date: Q3/2015
Max. displays: 3
Generation: 9
Direct X: 12
Technology: 14 nm
Max. GPU Memory: 32 GB
Frame Generation: No

Hardware codec support

Processors with integrated graphics can process video codecs faster. Support for modern codecs can significantly increase system efficiency during video playback.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit): Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit): Decode
h264: Decode / Encode
VP8: Decode / Encode
VP9: Decode
AV1: No
AVC: Decode / Encode
VC-1: Decode
JPEG: Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The Intel Core i7-6600U supports a maximum of 32 GB memory. Depending on the mainboard, the processor can use a maximum of 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. This results in a maximum bandwidth of the main memory of 34.1 GB/s.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:
LPDDR3-1866
DDR4-2133
34.1 GB/s
34.1 GB/s
Max. Memory: 32 GB
Memory channels: 2 (Dual Channel)
ECC: No
PCIe: 3.0 x 12
PCIe Bandwidth: 11.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

The Intel Core i7-6600U has a TDP of 15 W. Based on the TDP, the system manufacturer can and must adapt the cooling solution to the processor.

TDP (PL1 / PBP): 15 W
TDP (PL2): --
TDP up: 25 W
TDP down: 7.5 W
Tjunction max.: 100 °C

Technical details

Modern production reduces the waste heat of a processor and increases its efficiency. The Intel Core i7-6600U is made in 14 nm and has 4.00 MB cache.

Technology: 14 nm
Chip design: Monolithic
Socket: BGA 1356
L2-Cache: --
L3-Cache: 4.00 MB
AES-NI: Yes
Operating systems: Windows 10, Linux
Virtualization: VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Instruction set (ISA): x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions: SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date: Q3/2015
Release price: 393 $
Part Number: --
Documents: Technical data sheet

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Benchmark results

Verified Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Core i7-6600U have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.


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.
AMD EPYC 7351P AMD EPYC 7351P
16C 32T @ 2.90 GHz
821
AMD Ryzen 3 1200 [12nm] AMD Ryzen 3 1200 [12nm]
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
821
Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4
8C 16T @ 3.00 GHz
821
Intel Core i7-6600U Intel Core i7-6600U
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
820
Intel Core i7-6660U Intel Core i7-6660U
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
820
Intel Core i7-6650U Intel Core i7-6650U
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
820
Intel Celeron G5900T Intel Celeron G5900T
2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz
818

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 G3450 Intel Pentium G3450
2C 2T @ 3.40 GHz
1520
Intel Core i5-3360M Intel Core i5-3360M
2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
1519
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
1517
Intel Core i7-6600U Intel Core i7-6600U
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
1513
MediaTek Helio P90 MediaTek Helio P90
8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
1512
AMD FX-9830P AMD FX-9830P
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
1512
Intel Core i5-7200U Intel Core i5-7200U
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
1510

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.
AMD Athlon Silver 7120U AMD Athlon Silver 7120U
2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz
1093
Apple A11 Bionic Apple A11 Bionic
6C 6T @ 2.39 GHz
1093
Intel Core m7-6Y75 Intel Core m7-6Y75
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
1093
Intel Core i7-6600U Intel Core i7-6600U
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
1092
Intel Core i7-6660U Intel Core i7-6660U
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
1092
AMD Ryzen 3 1200 [12nm] AMD Ryzen 3 1200 [12nm]
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
1092
Intel Core i5-8400T Intel Core i5-8400T
6C 6T @ 3.30 GHz
1092

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 Core i5-3470 Intel Core i5-3470
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
1943
Intel Core i5-4200H Intel Core i5-4200H
2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
1941
Intel Core i7-5550U Intel Core i7-5550U
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz
1941
Intel Core i7-6600U Intel Core i7-6600U
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
1937
Intel Core i5-7200U Intel Core i5-7200U
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
1937
Intel Core i7-2860QM Intel Core i7-2860QM
4C 8T @ 2.50 GHz
1934
Intel Core m7-6Y75 Intel Core m7-6Y75
2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
1933

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 Core i7-5700HQ Intel Core i7-5700HQ
Intel HD Graphics 5600 @ 1.05 GHz
403
Intel Pentium G4500 Intel Pentium G4500
Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 1.05 GHz
403
Intel Pentium G4520 Intel Pentium G4520
Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 1.05 GHz
403
Intel Core i7-6600U Intel Core i7-6600U
Intel HD Graphics 520 @ 1.05 GHz
403
Intel Core i5-10200H Intel Core i5-10200H
Intel UHD Graphics 630 @ 1.05 GHz
403
Intel Core i5-10500H Intel Core i5-10500H
Intel UHD Graphics 630 @ 1.05 GHz
403
Intel Core i3-9100TE Intel Core i3-9100TE
Intel UHD Graphics 630 @ 1.05 GHz
403

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.
AMD Phenom II X4 920 AMD Phenom II X4 920
4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
3489
AMD Phenom II X4 925 AMD Phenom II X4 925
4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
3489
AMD Phenom II X4 B93 AMD Phenom II X4 B93
4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
3489
Intel Core i7-6600U Intel Core i7-6600U
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
3465
Intel Pentium Silver J5040 Intel Pentium Silver J5040
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
3460
Intel Core i5-L16G7 Intel Core i5-L16G7
5C 5T @ 1.80 GHz
3451
AMD A10-4657M AMD A10-4657M
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
3449

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.
AMD Phenom II X6 1100T AMD Phenom II X6 1100T
6C 6T @ 3.30 GHz
923
Intel Core i3-4130 Intel Core i3-4130
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
921
Intel Core i7-5600U Intel Core i7-5600U
2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz
912
Intel Core i7-6600U Intel Core i7-6600U
2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz
898
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
6C 6T @ 3.20 GHz
895
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400
4C 4T @ 2.66 GHz
894
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400
4C 4T @ 2.66 GHz
891

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 Core i7-4790 Intel Core i7-4790
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
145
Intel Core i7-4790S Intel Core i7-4790S
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
145
Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2 Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2
6C 12T @ 3.90 GHz
145
Intel Core i7-6600U Intel Core i7-6600U
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
144
Intel Core i7-4870HQ Intel Core i7-4870HQ
4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz
144
Intel Core i5-7260U Intel Core i5-7260U
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
144
Intel Core i7-6650U Intel Core i7-6650U
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
144

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.
AMD Phenom II X4 840 AMD Phenom II X4 840
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
324
AMD Phenom II X4 840T AMD Phenom II X4 840T
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
324
AMD Phenom II X4 955 AMD Phenom II X4 955
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
324
Intel Core i7-6600U Intel Core i7-6600U
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
323
Intel Pentium Gold G5400T Intel Pentium Gold G5400T
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
323
Intel Core i5-4310M Intel Core i5-4310M
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
321
AMD Ryzen 3 2200U AMD Ryzen 3 2200U
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
318

Benchmarks


Description of the processor

The Intel Core i7-6600U is a mobile processor and belongs to the 6th generation of the Intel Core i7 series and comes from the Intel Core i 6000U CPU group. The processor uses a motherboard with the BGA 1356 socket, it has 2 cores with 4 threads. The processor was released in Q3 2015 with a retail price of $393.

The processor is based on a normal core architecture and supports Hyperthreading/SMT. The base clock frequency is 2.60 GHz, the turbo clock frequency with one core is 3.40 GHz and the turbo clock frequency with 2 cores is 3.00 GHz.

The processor has an integrated graphics (iGPU) called Intel HD Graphics 520. The graphics clock frequency for the integrated graphics is 0.30 GHz, the maximum turbo clock frequency is 1.05 GHz. The graphics unit has 24 execution units and 192 shaders, with a maximum memory of 32 GB you can use it with a maximum of 3 screens. The integrated graphics comes from the 9th generation and is supported with DirectX 12 and was manufactured in 14 nm.

The Intel Core i7-6600U can decode and encode h265/HEVC (8-bit), h264, VP8, AVC and JPEG and decode h265/HEVC (10-bit), VP9, VC-1.

The supported memory types of the processor are DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM, DDR4-2133 SO-DIMM and LPDDR3-1866. The processor has 2 memory channels (dual channel) and supports AES-NI encryption. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) can be configured between 7.5W and 25W, the parameter PL1 is 15W. The maximum temperature is 100°C.

The chip design is monolithic and the L3 cache is 4.00 MB. The processor is based on the Skylake U architecture. Windows 10 and Linux are supported as operating systems.

The Intel Core i7-6600U gets 692 points in the Geekbench 5 (64bit, single-core) test, in Geekbench 5 (64bit, multi-core) it gets 1,513 points.



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