Intel Core i7-6700HQ Benchmark, Test and specs

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The Intel Core i7-6700HQ has 4 cores with 8 threads and is based on the 6. gen of the Intel Core i7 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the BGA 1440 socket and was released in Q3/2015. The Intel Core i7-6700HQ scores 806 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 3,079 points.
Intel Core i7-6700HQ

CPU lineage

The segment in which we have classified the Intel Core i7-6700HQ. Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the Intel Core i7-6700HQ.

Name: Intel Core i7-6700HQ
Family: Intel Core i7 (293)
CPU group: Intel Core i 6000H (15)
Architecture: Skylake H
Segment: Mobile
Generation: 6
Predecessor: Intel Core i7-5700HQ
Successor: Intel Core i7-7700HQ

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i7-6700HQ has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i7-6700HQ is 2.60 GHz (3.50 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads: 4 / 8
Core architecture: normal
Cores: 4x
Hyperthreading / SMT: Yes
Overclocking: No
Frequency: 2.60 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core): 3.50 GHz
Turbo Frequency (4 Cores): 3.20 GHz

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i7-6700HQ has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i7-6700HQ uses the Intel HD Graphics 530, which has 192 texture shaders and 24 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name: Intel HD Graphics 530
GPU frequency: 0.35 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

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.

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 processor can use up to 64 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 34.1 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:
LPDDR3-1866
DDR4-2133
34.1 GB/s
34.1 GB/s
Max. Memory: 64 GB
Memory channels: 2 (Dual Channel)
ECC: No
PCIe: 3.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth: 19.7 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 45 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP): 45 W
TDP (PL2): --
TDP up: --
TDP down: --
Tjunction max.: --

Technical details

The Intel Core i7-6700HQ is made in 14 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 6.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology: 14 nm
Chip design: Monolithic
Socket: BGA 1440
L2-Cache: --
L3-Cache: 6.00 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: --
Part Number: --
Documents: Technical data sheet

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Benchmark results

Verified Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Core i7-6700HQ 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.


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 Core i3-1000G4 Intel Core i3-1000G4
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
898
Intel Core i3-1000NG4 Intel Core i3-1000NG4
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
898
Intel Core i5-8250U Intel Core i5-8250U
4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz
897
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz
896
Intel Core i3-8100B Intel Core i3-8100B
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
896
Intel Core i5-8350U Intel Core i5-8350U
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
896
AMD Ryzen 5 3450U AMD Ryzen 5 3450U
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz
891

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 Core i7-1060G7 Intel Core i7-1060G7
4C 8T @ 2.60 GHz
4260
Intel Core i5-1035G1 Intel Core i5-1035G1
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
4225
Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
4207
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
4193
Intel Core i5-1030NG7 Intel Core i5-1030NG7
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
4189
Intel Core i7-7820HQ Intel Core i7-7820HQ
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz
4186
Intel Core i5-10310U Intel Core i5-10310U
4C 8T @ 1.70 GHz
4170

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 Core i5-4300M Intel Core i5-4300M
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
808
Intel Core i7-2600K Intel Core i7-2600K
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
808
Intel Core i3-4160 Intel Core i3-4160
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
807
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz
806
AMD EPYC 7501 AMD EPYC 7501
32C 64T @ 3.00 GHz
806
Intel Core i7-4960X Intel Core i7-4960X
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz
806
Intel Core i5-4308U Intel Core i5-4308U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
805

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.
AMD Ryzen 7 2800H AMD Ryzen 7 2800H
4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz
3088
Intel Core i5-7600T Intel Core i5-7600T
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
3084
AMD Ryzen 5 3500C AMD Ryzen 5 3500C
4C 8T @ 2.50 GHz
3080
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
3079
Intel Core i7-3740QM Intel Core i7-3740QM
4C 8T @ 2.70 GHz
3079
Intel Core i7-8650U Intel Core i7-8650U
4C 8T @ 2.60 GHz
3079
Intel Core i7-4770T Intel Core i7-4770T
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
3076

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 Core i7-5930K Intel Core i7-5930K
6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz
1132
Intel Xeon E5-2643 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2643 v3
6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz
1131
Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3
12C 24T @ 3.30 GHz
1131
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz
1128
Intel Core i3-10100Y Intel Core i3-10100Y
2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
1127
Intel Core i5-8250U Intel Core i5-8250U
4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz
1127
Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4
14C 28T @ 3.50 GHz
1127

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 i3-9300 Intel Core i3-9300
4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
3945
Intel Xeon E3-1225 v6 Intel Xeon E3-1225 v6
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
3934
Intel Core i7-4771 Intel Core i7-4771
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
3910
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
3894
Intel Core i7-6920HQ Intel Core i7-6920HQ
4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz
3876
Intel Core i7-10510U Intel Core i7-10510U
4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz
3874
Intel Core i3-8300 Intel Core i3-8300
4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
3868

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 Xeon E3-1231 v3 Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
1683
AMD Ryzen 5 3550H AMD Ryzen 5 3550H
4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
1660
Intel Xeon E-2234 Intel Xeon E-2234
4C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
1654
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
1651
Intel Core i7-1065G7 Intel Core i7-1065G7
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz
1639
Intel Core i3-9100F Intel Core i3-9100F
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
1630
Intel Core i3-9100 Intel Core i3-9100
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
1630

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 i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 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 FX-8120 AMD FX-8120
8C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
6596
Intel Core i5-7600 Intel Core i5-7600
4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
6584
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888+ Qualcomm Snapdragon 888+
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
6572
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
6520
Intel Core i7-970 Intel Core i7-970
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz
6517
Intel Core i7-4770R Intel Core i7-4770R
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
6517
Intel Core i5-10310U Intel Core i5-10310U
4C 8T @ 1.70 GHz
6502

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 Xeon E5450 Intel Xeon E5450
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
524
AMD Ryzen 5 1400 AMD Ryzen 5 1400
4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz
526.2
AMD Ryzen 5 2400G AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz
534.4
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
540.3
Intel Core i5-6600 Intel Core i5-6600
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
559.4
Intel Core i5-4690K Intel Core i5-4690K
4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
561.1
Intel Core i7-4710HQ Intel Core i7-4710HQ
4C 8T @ 2.50 GHz
561.8

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-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 Core i7-2600 Intel Core i7-2600
4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz
337
Intel Core i3-4160 Intel Core i3-4160
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
331
AMD Ryzen 5 2500U AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
329
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
325
Intel Core i7-7500U Intel Core i7-7500U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
325
Intel Core i5-2400 Intel Core i5-2400
4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
317
Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3
6C 12T @ 2.80 GHz
316

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 Ryzen 7 3700U AMD Ryzen 7 3700U
4C 8T @ 2.30 GHz
1735
Intel Core i7-3770S Intel Core i7-3770S
4C 8T @ 3.10 GHz
1730
Intel Core i7-5700HQ Intel Core i7-5700HQ
4C 8T @ 2.70 GHz
1729
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 2.60 GHz
1725
Intel Core i7-2700K Intel Core i7-2700K
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz
1723
Intel Core i5-7600 Intel Core i5-7600
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
1709
Intel Core i7-6820HQ Intel Core i7-6820HQ
4C 8T @ 2.70 GHz
1704

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 i3-4360 Intel Core i3-4360
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
149
Intel Core i5-6600T Intel Core i5-6600T
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
149
Intel Core i7-5850HQ Intel Core i7-5850HQ
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
149
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz
148
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF
6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz
148
Intel Core i5-8500T Intel Core i5-8500T
6C 6T @ 3.50 GHz
148
Intel Core i7-6770HQ Intel Core i7-6770HQ
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz
148

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 Core i7-4980HQ Intel Core i7-4980HQ
4C 8T @ 2.80 GHz
695
Intel Core i7-6820HK Intel Core i7-6820HK
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
694
Intel Core i7-6820HQ Intel Core i7-6820HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
694
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
692
Intel Core i7-6770HQ Intel Core i7-6770HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
692
Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
690
Intel Xeon E5-2637 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2637 v3
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
690

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