Core i7-6600U

Performance

79.22k points

Description

The Core i7-6600U is a cpu manufactured by Intel that was released on September 2015. This model has 2 Skylake-U cores with HyperThreading, runs at 2600 MHz as base frequency and has a a thermal design power of 15 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) i7-6600U CPU @ 2.60GHz

CPUID

406e3

Core

Skylake-U

Architecture

Skylake

Base frecuency

2.6 GHz

Boost frecuency

3.4 GHz

Socket

BGA1356

Cores/Threads

2/4

TDP

15 W

Cache L1 (d+i)

2x32+2x32 kB

Cache L2

2x256 kB

Cache L3

4096 kB

Release date

September 2015

Mean monothread perf.

39.73k points

Mean multithread perf.

79.22k points

Non-optimized benchmark

The benchmark in Mode 0 (FPU) measures cpu performance with non-optimized software. It uses the basic µinstructions from the i386 architecture with the i387 floating point unit. This mode is compatible with all CPUs so it's practical to compare very different CPUs

Monothread

Multithread

Test#1 (Integers)

2.75k

5.23k (x1.9)

Test#2 (FP)

12.23k

25k (x2.0)

Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)

3.9k

8.98k (x2.3)

Test#1 (Memory)

5.61k

4.73k (x0.8)

TOTAL

24.48k

43.95k (x1.8)

SSE3 optimized benchmark

The benchmark in mode I (SSE) is optimized for the use of SIMD instructions with 128 bits register and the SSE set up to version 3. Nearly every modern CPU has support for this mode.

Monothread

Multithread

Test#1 (Integers)

6.76k

14.37k (x2.1)

Test#2 (FP)

9.58k

23.79k (x2.5)

Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)

2.46k

5.71k (x2.3)

Test#1 (Memory)

4.18k

4.29k (x1.0)

TOTAL

22.99k

48.16k (x2.1)

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)

8.49k

14.11k (x1.7)

Test#2 (FP)

10.92k

20.05k (x1.8)

Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)

2.76k

6.17k (x2.2)

Test#1 (Memory)

4.93k

4.73k (x1.0)

TOTAL

27.1k

45.05k (x1.7)

AVX2 optimized benchmark

The benchmark in mode III (AVX2), like AVX1, is optimized to used 256 bits registers beside the second version of the Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX). The first AVX2 compatible CPU was released in 2013.

Monothread

Multithread

Test#1 (Integers)

16.72k

33.41k (x2.0)

Test#2 (FP)

14.7k

31.66k (x2.2)

Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)

3.4k

8.18k (x2.4)

Test#1 (Memory)

4.9k

5.97k (x1.2)

TOTAL

39.73k

79.22k (x2.0)

Computers where this CPU was tested

Model

Release date

HP ProBook 640 G2

N/A

Dell Latitude E7470

N/A

RAM models tested along with this CPU

Model

Type

Frequency

Size

Kingston HyperX

DDR4

2133 MHz

8 GB

Samsung M471A5244BB0-CPB

DDR4

2133 MHz

4 GB

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]

Test#2 (FP) [% vs time]

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

Test#1 (Memory) [% vs time]

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]