Intel Core i7-6700T Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2024-04-16

The Intel Core i7-6700T 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 LGA 1151 socket and was released in Q3/2015. The Intel Core i7-6700T scores 940 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 3,411 points.

CPU lineage
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Name:	Intel Core i7-6700T
Family:	Intel Core i7 (298)
CPU group:	Intel Core i 6000 (24)
Architecture:	Skylake S
Segment:	Desktop / Server
Generation:	6
Predecessor:	--
Successor:	Intel Core i7-7700T

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i7-6700T has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i7-6700T is 2.80 GHz (3.60 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:	2.80 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	3.60 GHz
Turbo Frequency (4 Cores):	3.00 GHz

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.

AI hardware:	--
AI specifications:	--

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i7-6700T has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i7-6700T 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):	1.10 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 type:	Memory bandwidth:
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.

DDR4-2133 DDR3-1866	34.1 GB/s 29.9 GB/s
Max. Memory:	64 GB
Memory channels:	2 (Dual Channel)
ECC:	No
PCIe:	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth:	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 35 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):	35 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	--
TDP down:	--
Tjunction max.:	--

Technical details

The Intel Core i7-6700T 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 8.00 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:	LGA 1151
L2-Cache:	--
L3-Cache:	8.00 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

Intel Core i7-6700T
4C 8T @ 2.80 GHz (3.60 GHz)

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the Intel Core i7-6700T 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 Celeron G3900 2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz	1020
	Intel Core i3-1110G4 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	1016
	Intel Core i7-10510Y 4C 8T @ 4.50 GHz	1016
	Intel Core i7-6700T 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	1005
	Intel Core i5-9400F 6C 6T @ 4.10 GHz	1005
	Intel Core i5-9400 6C 6T @ 4.10 GHz	1005
	Intel Core i5-8257U 4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz	998

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 i5-1030NG7 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	4189
	Intel Core i7-7820HQ 4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz	4186
	Intel Core i5-10310U 4C 8T @ 1.70 GHz	4170
	Intel Core i7-6700T 4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	4120
	Intel Core i5-8257U 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	4017
	Intel Core i5-10210U 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	4013
	Intel Core i5-6600K 4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	3965

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 i7-4980HQ 4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz	943
	AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF 6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz	941
	MediaTek Dimensity 8100 8C 8T @ 2.85 GHz	941
	Intel Core i7-6700T 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	940
	Intel Pentium Gold G6400E 2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	940
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G 4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz	940
	AMD Ryzen 5 3400G 4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz	940

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 Core i3-8300 4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	3425
	Intel Core i5-1035G4 4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz	3420
	Intel Pentium Gold 8500 5C 6T @ 1.40 GHz	3417
	Intel Core i7-6700T 4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	3411
	Intel Core i7-5700HQ 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	3410
	Intel Core i7-3770K 4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz	3409
	Intel Core i5-8300H 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	3401

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 Core i5-7300U 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	353
	Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	353
	Intel Xeon E5-2643 v4 6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz	351
	Intel Core i7-6700T 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	350
	Intel Processor N95 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	349
	AMD Ryzen 5 3450U 4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz	349
	Intel Xeon Gold 6126 12C 24T @ 3.70 GHz	349

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 Core i3-9350K 4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	1833
	Intel Core i3-9350KF 4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	1833
	Intel Core i7-4790 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	1819
	Intel Core i7-6700T 4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	1811
	AMD Ryzen 5 1500X 4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz	1811
	AMD Ryzen 7 3750H 4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz	1809
	Intel Core i7-8569U 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	1802

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.


	AMD A8-6500 AMD Radeon HD 8570D @ 0.84 GHz	432
	AMD A8-5545M AMD Radeon HD 8510G @ 0.55 GHz	425
	AMD FX-7500 AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Kaveri) @ 0.55 GHz	425
	Intel Core i7-6700T Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 1.10 GHz	422
	Intel Pentium Gold G6505T Intel HD Graphics 630 @ 1.10 GHz	422
	Intel Pentium Gold G6505 Intel HD Graphics 630 @ 1.10 GHz	422
	Intel Pentium Gold G6605 Intel HD Graphics 630 @ 1.10 GHz	422

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 Xeon E3-1505M v6 4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	7304
	Intel Core i3-9300 4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz	7302
	Intel Xeon E-2224 4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	7294
	Intel Core i7-6700T 4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	7249
	Intel Xeon E3-1275 v3 4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz	7231
	Intel Core i7-4790 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	7229
	AMD Ryzen 7 3780U 4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz	7220

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 Xeon E3-1231 v3 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	1952
	Intel Core i7-7820HK 4C 8T @ 2.90 GHz	1948
	AMD Ryzen 7 3750H 4C 8T @ 2.30 GHz	1940
	Intel Core i7-6700T 4C 8T @ 2.80 GHz	1935
	AMD Ryzen 3 5300U 4C 8T @ 2.60 GHz	1934
	Intel Xeon E3-1245 v3 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	1929
	Intel Core i7-10510U 4C 8T @ 1.80 GHz	1925

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 Xeon E3-1225 v5 4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	155
	Intel Xeon E5-2637 v4 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	155
	Intel Xeon E5-2643 v4 6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz	155
	Intel Core i7-6700T 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	154
	Intel Processor N100 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	154
	AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 3200G 4C 4T @ 4.00 GHz	154
	AMD Ryzen 3 3200G 4C 4T @ 4.00 GHz	154

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 FX-8310 8C 8T @ 4.10 GHz	665
	AMD FX-8350 8C 8T @ 4.10 GHz	665
	Intel Core i5-1035G7 4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz	664
	Intel Core i7-6700T 4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	663
	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	662
	AMD Ryzen 7 2700U 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	662
	Intel Xeon E-2224G 4C 4T @ 4.30 GHz	660

Benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
586 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
565 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,488 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,461 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
656 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
604 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,042 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,392 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
733 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
249 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,106 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,101 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
942 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
938 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
825 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
836 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

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