Both models
i5-6600K and
i7-6700HQ are based on
Skylake architecture.
Sky Lake is also known as 6th generation Core. Include Thunderbolt 3.0, SATA Express and Iris Pro graphics with DirectX 12. It uses LGA 1151 socket for mainstream models and LGA 2066 for X-Series. Sky Lake comes with AVX2 support in all mainstreams CPUs and AVX-512 in some high end models.
Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i5-6600K gets a score of
199.9 k points while the i7-6700HQ gets
205.2 k points.
Summarizing, the
i7-6700HQ is
1 times faster than the
i5-6600K . To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.