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Is the Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.00GHz Good for Gaming?
This is a fairly old CPU that is no longer competitive with newer CPUs. [More ...]
Description:
Class: Desktop
Socket: LGA1151
Clockspeed: 4.0 GHz
Turbo Speed: 4.2 GHz
Cores: 4 Threads: 8
Typical TDP: 95 W
Cache per CPU Package:
L1 Instruction Cache: 4 x 32 KB
L1 Data Cache: 4 x 32 KB
L2 Cache: 4 x 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory Support: Max. Memory Size: 64 GB (DDR4-1866/2133, DDR3L-1333/1600 @ 1.35V)
Other names: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz, Intel Core i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q3 2015
CPUmark/$Price: 91.11
Overall Rank:
1217th fastest in multithreading out of 4770 CPUs
789th fastest in single threading out of 4770 CPUs
381st fastest in out of 1369 Desktop CPUs
Last Price Change: $98.00 USD (2024-07-26)
| Integer Math | 28,113 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 17,377 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 30 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 15,850 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 3,060 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 125,747 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 640 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 8,233 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 2,504 MOps/Sec |
| Merchant | Price | Purchase |
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 59,235 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 41,481 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 39,150 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 34,619 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,050 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 21,894 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 18,284 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 17,754 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,535 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,172 | |
| Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.00GHz | 8,929 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 221.95 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 168.43 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 146.82 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 138.27 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 134.63 | |
| Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.00GHz | 91.11 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 84.64 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 55.41 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | NA |
| Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 4,629 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 4,166 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 4,032 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,919 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,837 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,695 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 3,470 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 3,360 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 2,930 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 2,567 | |
| Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.00GHz | 2,504 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL2153492 - Jul 25 2024 | 9291 | |
| BL2153457 - Jul 25 2024 | 7996 | |
| BL5069456 - Jul 25 2024 | 9400 | |
| BL2152403 - Jul 23 2024 | 9149 | |
| BL2151968 - Jul 23 2024 | 9926 |
| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.00GHz | 8,929 | |
| Intel Core i7-6700 @ 3.40GHz vs Intel Core i7-6700K | 8,083 (-9.5%) | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 1400 vs Intel Core i7-6700K | 7,752 (-13.2%) | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3400G vs Intel Core i7-6700K | 9,266 (+3.8%) | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 2400G vs Intel Core i7-6700K | 8,729 (-2.2%) | |
| Intel Core i7-6700T @ 2.80GHz vs Intel Core i7-6700K | 7,219 (-19.2%) | |
| Intel Core i7-7700 @ 3.60GHz vs Intel Core i7-6700K | 8,646 (-3.2%) | |
| Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.00GHz vs Intel Core i7-6700K | 8,069 (-9.6%) | |
| AMD Ryzen 3 4300G vs Intel Core i7-6700K | 10,966 (+22.8%) | |
| Intel Core i7-6800K @ 3.40GHz vs Intel Core i7-6700K | 10,766 (+20.6%) | |
| Intel Core i3-10100 @ 3.60GHz vs Intel Core i7-6700K | 8,654 (-3.1%) | |
| AMD Ryzen 3 3200G vs Intel Core i7-6700K | 7,133 (-20.1%) | |
| Intel Core i7-4770S @ 3.10GHz vs Intel Core i7-6700K | 6,747 (-24.4%) |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-14900KS | 9,316 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D | 9,272 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 9,028 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900KS | 8,528 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 8,385 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900K | 8,104 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900KF | 8,009 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D | 7,877 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 7,787 | |
| Intel Core i7-13790F | 7,746 | |
| Intel Core i7-14700K | 7,542 | |
| Intel Core i7-14700KF | 7,533 | |
| Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.00GHz | 1,403 |
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