Intel Core i7-6870HQ Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2023-04-04

The Intel Core i7-6870HQ 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 Q1/2016. The Intel Core i7-6870HQ scores 846 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 3,299 points.

CPU lineage
The segment in which we have classified the Intel Core i7-6870HQ. 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 i7-6870HQ.
Name:	Intel Core i7-6870HQ
Family:	Intel Core i7
CPU group:	Intel Core i 6000H
Architecture:	Skylake H
Segment:	Mobile
Generation:	6
Predecessor:	--
Successor:	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i7-6870HQ has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i7-6870HQ is 2.70 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:	2.70 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	3.60 GHz
Turbo Frequency (4 Cores):	3.20 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 i7-6870HQ has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i7-6870HQ uses the Intel Iris Pro Graphics 580, which has 576 texture shaders and 72 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name:	Intel Iris Pro Graphics 580
GPU frequency:	0.35 GHz
GPU (Turbo):	1.00 GHz
Compute units:	72
Shader:	576
Max. GPU Memory:	32 GB

Max. displays:	3
Generation:	9
Direct X:	12.0
Technology:	14 nm
Release date:	Q3/2015

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	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:	35 W
Tjunction max.:	100 °C

Technical details

The Intel Core i7-6870HQ 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:	BGA 1440
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:	Q1/2016
Release price:	434 $
Part Number:	--
Documents:	Technical data sheet

Intel Core i7-6870HQ
4C 8T @ 2.70 GHz (3.60 GHz)

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the Intel Core i7-6870HQ 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 i3-8100 4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	912
	Intel Core i5-4670 4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	908
	Intel Core i5-4670K 4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	908
	Intel Core i7-6870HQ 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	903
	Intel Core i7-7820HQ 4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz	903
	Intel Core i7-6820HQ 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	903
	AMD Ryzen 5 1600 6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz	900

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 i5-1035G4 4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz	4332
	Intel Core i7-1060NG7 4C 8T @ 2.80 GHz	4329
	Intel Core i7-4770S 4C 8T @ 3.10 GHz	4310
	Intel Core i7-6870HQ 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	4288
	Intel Core i7-6820HQ 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	4288
	Intel Core i7-7700HQ 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	4271
	Intel Core i7-1060G7 4C 8T @ 2.60 GHz	4260

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 Xeon D-2142IT 8C 16T @ 3.00 GHz	850
	Valve Steam Deck (AMD Custom APU 0405) 4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz	849
	Intel Pentium G4400 2C 2T @ 3.30 GHz	847
	Intel Core i7-6870HQ 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	846
	Intel Core i5-7500T 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	846
	Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4 10C 20T @ 3.10 GHz	846
	Intel Core i5-6440EQ 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	846

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 i7-8665U 4C 8T @ 2.80 GHz	3314
	Intel Core i7-3940XM 4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	3310
	Intel Core i7-4770S 4C 8T @ 3.10 GHz	3310
	Intel Core i7-6870HQ 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	3299
	Intel Core i7-6820HQ 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	3299
	Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 8C 8T @ 2.84 GHz	3295
	Intel Core i7-3820 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	3293

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 Ryzen 5 2400G 4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz	1099
	Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 12C 24T @ 3.50 GHz	1098
	Qualcomm QCM6490 8C 8T @ 2.71 GHz	1097
	Intel Core i7-6870HQ 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	1096
	Intel Core i7-6820HQ 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	1096
	AMD Ryzen 5 1600 6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz	1095
	AMD Athlon Silver 7120U 2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz	1093

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 i7-7700HQ 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	3689
	Intel Core i5-7500 4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	3685
	Intel Core i7-5950HQ 4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz	3685
	Intel Core i7-6870HQ 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	3679
	Intel Core i7-6820HQ 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	3679
	Intel Core i7-4770HQ 4C 8T @ 2.20 GHz	3666
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G 4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz	3660

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 i7-6970HQ Intel Iris Pro Graphics 580 @ 1.05 GHz	1210
	Intel Core i3-1315UE Intel Iris Xe Graphics 64 (Alder Lake) @ 1.20 GHz	1190
	AMD Ryzen 3 5425C AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Raven Ridge) @ 1.50 GHz	1153
	Intel Core i7-6870HQ Intel Iris Pro Graphics 580 @ 1.00 GHz	1152
	AMD Ryzen 3 5425U AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Renoir) @ 1.50 GHz	1152
	AMD Ryzen Embedded V2546 AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Renoir) @ 1.50 GHz	1152
	AMD Ryzen Embedded V2516 AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Renoir) @ 1.50 GHz	1152

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 Ryzen 5 3400GE 4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz	8282
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400GE 4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz	8280
	Intel Core i7-3930K 6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz	8254
	Intel Core i7-6870HQ 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	8236
	Intel Core i7-6820HQ 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	8236
	Intel Core i3-10100E 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	8235
	Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	8228

Benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
561 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
537 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,428 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,402 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,688 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,638 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
1,943 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,334 entries

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