Intel Core i7-7660U Benchmark, Test and specs

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The Intel Core i7-7660U was released in Q4/2016 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 i7-7660U achieved a result of 919 points (single-core) or 2,088 points (multi-core).
Intel Core i7-7660U

CPU lineage

In this classification you can see to which group of processors the Intel Core i7-7660U belongs. We also show the direct predecessor and successor of Intel Core i7-7660U.

Name: Intel Core i7-7660U
Family: Intel Core i7 (293)
CPU group: Intel Core i 7000U (18)
Architecture: Kaby Lake U
Segment: Mobile
Generation: 7
Predecessor: Intel Core i7-6660U
Successor: --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i7-7660U has 2 cores. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i7-7660U is 2.50 GHz (4.00 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: 2.50 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core): 4.00 GHz
Turbo Frequency (2 Cores): 3.80 GHz

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i7-7660U has an integrated graphics that the system can use to efficiently play back videos. The Intel Core i7-7660U has the Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 installed, which has 48 streaming multiprocessors (384 shaders).

GPU name: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640
GPU frequency: 0.30 GHz
GPU (Turbo): 1.05 GHz
Compute units: 48
Shader: 384
Hardware Raytracing: No
Release date: Q2/2016
Max. displays: 3
Generation: 9.5
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 / Encode
h264: Decode / Encode
VP8: Decode / Encode
VP9: Decode / Encode
AV1: No
AVC: Decode / Encode
VC-1: Decode
JPEG: Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The Intel Core i7-7660U 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:
DDR4-2133
DDR3-1866
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 i7-7660U 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: --
TDP down: --
Tjunction max.: --

Technical details

Modern production reduces the waste heat of a processor and increases its efficiency. The Intel Core i7-7660U 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: Q4/2016
Release price: --
Part Number: --
Documents: Technical data sheet

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Benchmark results

Verified Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Core i7-7660U 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 i3-1005G1 Intel Core i3-1005G1
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
1047
Intel Core i5-6600 Intel Core i5-6600
4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
1041
Intel Core i5-6600K Intel Core i5-6600K
4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
1041
Intel Core i7-7660U Intel Core i7-7660U
2C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
1040
AMD Ryzen 5 2600 AMD Ryzen 5 2600
6C 12T @ 3.90 GHz
1040
Intel Xeon Platinum 8280L Intel Xeon Platinum 8280L
28C 56T @ 4.00 GHz
1037
Intel Core i7-8650U Intel Core i7-8650U
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz
1037

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 i5-5287U Intel Core i5-5287U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
1827
Intel Xeon E5450 Intel Xeon E5450
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
1781
Intel Core i5-4200M Intel Core i5-4200M
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
1771
Intel Core i7-7660U Intel Core i7-7660U
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
1759
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
1742
Intel Core i3-1110G4 Intel Core i3-1110G4
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
1709
Intel Core i5-6200U Intel Core i5-6200U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
1706

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 Pentium G4520 Intel Pentium G4520
2C 2T @ 3.60 GHz
921
Intel Xeon E5-1660 v2 Intel Xeon E5-1660 v2
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz
921
Intel Core i5-7267U Intel Core i5-7267U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
920
Intel Core i7-7660U Intel Core i7-7660U
2C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
919
AMD Ryzen 5 3400GE AMD Ryzen 5 3400GE
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
919
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400GE AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400GE
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
919
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3350G AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3350G
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
917

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 EPYC 7281 AMD EPYC 7281
16C 32T @ 2.70 GHz
2098
Samsung Exynos 9820 Samsung Exynos 9820
8C 8T @ 2.70 GHz
2094
AMD FX-6350 AMD FX-6350
6C 6T @ 4.20 GHz
2091
Intel Core i7-7660U Intel Core i7-7660U
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
2088
Intel Core i7-920 Intel Core i7-920
4C 8T @ 2.66 GHz
2085
AMD FX-8120 AMD FX-8120
8C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
2085
Intel Core i3-8145U Intel Core i3-8145U
2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
2084

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 i5-7500 Intel Core i5-7500
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
1260
Intel Core i5-1034G1 Intel Core i5-1034G1
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
1259
Intel Core i5-1035G1 Intel Core i5-1035G1
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
1259
Intel Core i7-7660U Intel Core i7-7660U
2C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
1258
Intel Core i5-8279U Intel Core i5-8279U
4C 8T @ 4.10 GHz
1255
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X
16C 32T @ 4.40 GHz
1255
AMD Ryzen 7 4700S AMD Ryzen 7 4700S
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
1254

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 i7-970 Intel Core i7-970
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz
2654
Intel Core i7-5700EQ Intel Core i7-5700EQ
4C 8T @ 2.60 GHz
2648
Samsung Exynos 990 Samsung Exynos 990
8C 8T @ 2.73 GHz
2645
Intel Core i7-7660U Intel Core i7-7660U
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
2637
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
8C 8T @ 2.96 GHz
2634
Intel Core i7-3920XM Intel Core i7-3920XM
4C 8T @ 2.90 GHz
2632
MediaTek Dimensity 7200 MediaTek Dimensity 7200
8C 8T @ 2.80 GHz
2630

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 i5-5350H Intel Core i5-5350H
Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200 @ 1.05 GHz
806
Intel Core i5-5575R Intel Core i5-5575R
Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200 @ 1.05 GHz
806
Intel Core i7-5750HQ Intel Core i7-5750HQ
Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200 @ 1.05 GHz
806
Intel Core i7-7660U Intel Core i7-7660U
Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 @ 1.05 GHz
806
Intel Core i5-5257U Intel Core i5-5257U
Intel Iris Graphics 6100 @ 1.05 GHz
806
Intel Core i5-4570R Intel Core i5-4570R
Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 @ 1.25 GHz
800
Intel Core i5-14500HX Intel Core i5-14500HX
Intel UHD Graphics 13th Gen (32 EU) @ 1.55 GHz
794

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 Core i5-2500 Intel Core i5-2500
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
4150
Intel Pentium J6426 Intel Pentium J6426
4C 4T @ 2.00 GHz
4150
Intel Core i3-6100 Intel Core i3-6100
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
4148
Intel Core i7-7660U Intel Core i7-7660U
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
4132
Intel Pentium Gold G6400 Intel Pentium Gold G6400
2C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
4129
Intel Core i5-7287U Intel Core i5-7287U
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
4129
Intel Core i5-2550k Intel Core i5-2550k
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
4120

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 i3-8350K Intel Core i3-8350K
4C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
171
Intel Core i7-6700 Intel Core i7-6700
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
171
Intel Core i7-7567U Intel Core i7-7567U
2C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
171
Intel Core i7-7660U Intel Core i7-7660U
2C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
170
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz
169
AMD Ryzen 5 3400G AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz
169
Intel Core i5-8300H Intel Core i5-8300H
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
169

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 i5-6400T Intel Core i5-6400T
4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
414
Intel Core i3-6320 Intel Core i3-6320
2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
413
Intel Core i3-1005G1 Intel Core i3-1005G1
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
409
Intel Core i7-7660U Intel Core i7-7660U
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
405
Intel Core i3-10110U Intel Core i3-10110U
2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
405
Intel Core i5-4670T Intel Core i5-4670T
4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
404
Intel Pentium G4620 Intel Pentium G4620
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
403

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