Intel Pentium Gold G6600 Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2023-04-20

The Intel Pentium Gold G6600 has 2 cores with 4 threads and is based on the 10. gen of the Intel Pentium series. The processor uses a mainboard with the LGA 1200 socket and was released in Q2/2020. The Intel Pentium Gold G6600 scores 1,082 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 2,415 points.

CPU lineage
The segment in which we have classified the Intel Pentium Gold G6600. Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the Intel Pentium Gold G6600.
Name:	Intel Pentium Gold G6600
Family:	Intel Pentium
CPU group:	Intel Pentium G6000
Architecture:	Comet Lake S
Segment:	Desktop / Server
Generation:	10
Predecessor:	Intel Pentium Gold G5600
Successor:	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Pentium Gold G6600 has 2 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Pentium Gold G6600 is 4.20 GHz. The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads:	2 / 4
Core architecture:	normal
Cores:	2x

Hyperthreading / SMT:	Yes
Overclocking:	No
Frequency:	4.20 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	--
Turbo Frequency (2 Cores):	--

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 Pentium Gold G6600 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Pentium Gold G6600 uses the Intel HD Graphics 630, 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 630
GPU frequency:	0.35 GHz
GPU (Turbo):	1.10 GHz
Compute units:	24
Shader:	192
Max. GPU Memory:	64 GB

Max. displays:	3
Generation:	9.5
Direct X:	12
Technology:	14 nm
Release date:	Q2/2016

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 / Encode
h264:	Decode / Encode
VP8:	Decode / Encode
VP9:	Decode / Encode

AV1:	No
AVC:	Decode / Encode
VC-1:	Decode
JPEG:	Decode / Encode

Memory type:	Memory bandwidth:
Memory & PCIe The processor can use up to 128 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 42.7 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

DDR4-2666	42.7 GB/s
Max. Memory:	128 GB
Memory channels:	2 (Dual Channel)
ECC:	Yes
PCIe:	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth:	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 58 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):	58 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	--
TDP down:	--
Tjunction max.:	100 °C

Technical details

The Intel Pentium Gold G6600 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 4.00 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 1200
L2-Cache:	--
L3-Cache:	4.00 MB
AES-NI:	Yes
Operating systems:	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux

Virtualization:	VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Instruction set (ISA):	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions:	SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release date:	Q2/2020
Release price:	103 $
Part Number:	--
Documents:	Technical data sheet

Intel Pentium Gold G6600
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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the Intel Pentium Gold G6600 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.


	Intel Core i5-9400 6C 6T @ 4.10 GHz	1085
	AMD Athlon Gold PRO 4150GE 4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	1084
	Intel Xeon Platinum 8180 28C 56T @ 3.80 GHz	1083
	Intel Pentium Gold G6600 2C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	1082
	AMD Ryzen 5 4680U 6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz	1082
	Intel Pentium Gold G6505 2C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	1082
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U 6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz	1082

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 i7-10510Y 4C 8T @ 2.40 GHz	2418
	Intel Core i3-1000G4 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	2416
	Intel Core i3-1000NG4 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	2416
	Intel Pentium Gold G6600 2C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	2415
	Intel Pentium Gold G6505 2C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	2415
	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	2411
	AMD Ryzen 7 2700U 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	2411

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 i3-6100H 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	920
	Intel Core i5-4200M 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	918
	Intel Core i5-4590T 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	917
	Intel Pentium Gold G6600 2C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	916
	Intel Pentium Gold G6505 2C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	916
	Intel Core i3-4130T 2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	916
	AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 2300U 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	914

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.


	Apple A11 Bionic 6C 6T @ 2.39 GHz	1997
	AMD Athlon 200GE 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	1986
	AMD Athlon PRO 300U 2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	1986
	Intel Pentium Gold G6600 2C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	1977
	Intel Pentium Gold G6505 2C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	1977
	Intel Core i5-3340 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	1977
	AMD Athlon 300GE 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	1972

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 Xeon W-3275M 28C 56T @ 4.60 GHz	437
	Intel Core i5-1035G4 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	434
	Intel Core i5-1035G7 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	434
	Intel Pentium Gold G6600 2C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	433
	Intel Core i5-7600K 4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	433
	Microsoft XBox Series X 8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz	431
	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 24C 48T @ 4.20 GHz	431

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 Pentium Gold G6600 Intel HD Graphics 630 @ 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 Core i3-1115GRE 2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz	4421
	Intel Core i7-2820QM 4C 8T @ 2.30 GHz	4406
	MediaTek Dimensity 820 8C 8T @ 2.60 GHz	4401
	Intel Pentium Gold G6600 2C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	4400
	Intel Pentium Gold G6505 2C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	4400
	Intel Core i3-6320 2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz	4400
	Intel Core i3-8121U 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	4395

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.


	AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 8C 16T @ 4.30 GHz	177
	Intel Core i7-5960X 8C 16T @ 3.50 GHz	177
	Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3 8C 16T @ 3.50 GHz	177
	Intel Pentium Gold G6600 2C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	176
	Intel Core i3-10300T 4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz	176
	Intel Xeon E3-1535M v6 4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz	176
	AMD Ryzen 5 4500U 6C 6T @ 4.00 GHz	176

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 i5-4430 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	448
	Intel Core i3-7320 2C 4T @ 4.10 GHz	447
	AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 6C 6T @ 3.30 GHz	446
	Intel Pentium Gold G6600 2C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	437
	Intel Core i3-7300 2C 4T @ 4.00 GHz	436
	Intel Core i5-4690T 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	433
	AMD Phenom II X6 1045T 6C 6T @ 3.20 GHz	433

Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,399 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,372 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,648 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,599 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
641 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
1,925 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,319 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,102 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,097 entries

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