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Core i5-6600K


Performance
209.3k points

Description
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The Core i5-6600K is a cpu manufactured by Intel that was released on May 2015. This model has 4 Skylake-S cores , runs at 3500 MHz as base frequency and has a a thermal design power of 95 W.

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.

Specs
Official name
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHz
CPUID
506e3
Core
Skylake-S
Architecture
Base frecuency
3.5 GHz
Boost frecuency
3.9 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
4/4
TDP
95 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
4x32+4x32 kB
Cache L2
256 kB
Cache L3
6144 kB
Release date
May 2015
Mean monothread perf.
59.28k points
Mean multithread perf.
209.28k points

AVX optimized benchmark
The benchmark in mode II (AVX) is optimized to used 256 bits registers beside the first version of the Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX). The first AVX compatible CPU was released in 2011.
Monothread
Multithread
Test#1 (Integers)
17.24k
68.47k (x4.0)
Test#2 (FP)
26.5k
105.05k (x4.0)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
6.45k
25.24k (x3.9)
Test#1 (Memory)
9.09k
10.5k (x1.2)
TOTAL
59.28k
209.28k (x3.5)

Motherboards where this CPU was tested
Model
Chipset
Release date
Intel Z170
N/A

RAM models tested along with this CPU
Model
Type
Frequency
Size
DDR4
2133 MHz
8 GB

Overclocking
User
Frequency
Motherboard
1 krampak
4572 MHz
MAXIMUS VIII GENE
2 krampak
4403 MHz
MAXIMUS VIII GENE
3 krampak
4403 MHz
MAXIMUS VIII GENE
4 krampak
4403 MHz
MAXIMUS VIII GENE
5 krampak
4403 MHz
MAXIMUS VIII GENE
6 krampak
4403 MHz
MAXIMUS VIII GENE
7 krampak
4403 MHz
MAXIMUS VIII GENE
8 krampak
4403 MHz
MAXIMUS VIII GENE
9 krampak
4403 MHz
MAXIMUS VIII GENE
10 krampak
4403 MHz
MAXIMUS VIII GENE

Monothread performance graph
Monothread performance graphics gives the performance vs time. They are useful to measure the time it takes to the CPU to reach the maximum performance.

Usually, CPU's performance will be steady during these tests but if it has a slow frequency strategy, the first samples will show a lower score.


Test#1 (Integers) [% vs time]

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Test#2 (FP) [% vs time]

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Test#3 (Generic, ZIP) [% vs time]

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Test#1 (Memory) [% vs time]

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Multithread performance graph
Multithread graphs measure the performance against a heavy load during certain time.

If CPU's TDP doesn't limit the frequency and the machine is properly cooled, performance should remain steady vs time. Otherwise, the performance score will oscillate or decrease over time.


Test#1 (Integers) [% vs time]

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Test#2 (FP) [% vs time]

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Test#3 (Generic, ZIP) [% vs time]

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Test#1 (Memory) [% vs time]

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Core i5-6600K (This model)
 Mode AVX monothread  [59.28k points]
 Mode AVX multithread  [209.28k points]
 Mode AVX2 monothread  [76.98k points +29.86%]
 Mode AVX2 multithread  [289.9k points +38.53%]
 Mode AVX2 monothread  [59.27k points -0.01%]
 Mode AVX2 multithread  [251.82k points +20.33%]
 Mode AVX2 monothread  [59.01k points -0.44%]
 Mode AVX2 multithread  [190.82k points -8.82%]
 Mode AVX2 monothread  [81.91k points +38.18%]
 Mode AVX2 multithread  [529.32k points +152.93%]
 Mode AVX2 monothread  [67.33k points +13.59%]
 Mode AVX2 multithread  [257.52k points +23.05%]
 Mode AVX2 monothread  [89.53k points +51.04%]
 Mode AVX2 multithread  [558.41k points +166.83%]
 Mode AVX2 monothread  [80.6k points +35.97%]
 Mode AVX2 multithread  [443.77k points +112.05%]
 Mode AVX2 monothread  [52.47k points -11.48%]
 Mode AVX2 multithread  [215.47k points +2.96%]
 Mode AVX2 monothread  [77.34k points +30.47%]
 Mode AVX2 multithread  [371.08k points +77.31%]
 Mode AVX2 monothread  [75.67k points +27.65%]
 Mode AVX2 multithread  [349.21k points +66.86%]
          
AVX mode comparison

Monothread integers operations
Model
Score
18.1k [5.00%]
17.98k [4.30%]
17.52k [1.65%]
Intel Core i5-6600K
17.24k
This model
16.95k [-1.65%]
16.92k [-1.83%]
16.87k [-2.12%]
16.76k [-2.80%]
16.75k [-2.85%]

Multithread integers operations
Model
Score
77.43k [13.08%]
74.65k [9.02%]
74.58k [8.92%]
72.46k [5.83%]
71.25k [4.05%]
Intel Core i5-6600K
68.47k
This model
67.59k [-1.29%]
62.79k [-8.31%]
62.68k [-8.46%]
62.22k [-9.14%]

Monothread floating point operations
Model
Score
28.34k [6.94%]
27.04k [2.03%]
26.74k [0.90%]
Intel Core i5-6600K
26.5k
This model
26.41k [-0.34%]
26.18k [-1.20%]
26.12k [-1.44%]
25.74k [-2.88%]

Multithread floating point operations
Model
Score
109.99k [4.70%]
109.08k [3.83%]
107.78k [2.59%]
105.73k [0.65%]
105.24k [0.18%]
Intel Core i5-6600K
105.05k
This model
100.74k [-4.11%]
93.17k [-11.31%]
91.16k [-13.23%]
89.69k [-14.63%]
88.76k [-15.51%]

Monothread generic test (Zip compression)
Model
Score
8.76k [35.88%]
8.57k [32.93%]
Intel Core i5-6600K
6.45k
This model
6.43k [-0.32%]
6.36k [-1.34%]
6.33k [-1.82%]
6.22k [-3.54%]
6.17k [-4.26%]

Multithread generic test (Zip compression)
Model
Score
27.8k [10.12%]
27.02k [7.04%]
Intel Core i5-6600K
25.24k
This model
25.08k [-0.64%]
24.45k [-3.16%]
24.02k [-4.85%]

Monothread memory performance
Model
Score
Intel Core i5-6600K
9.09k
This model
8.97k [-1.31%]

Multithread memory performance
Model
Score
11.91k [13.39%]
11.8k [12.36%]
11.58k [10.29%]
10.65k [1.37%]
Intel Core i5-6600K
10.5k
This model
10.25k [-2.38%]
10.21k [-2.81%]
10.05k [-4.35%]
9.9k [-5.75%]

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