Core i7-6700K

General

Manufacturer

Intel

Family

Core i7

Codename

Skylake-S

Type

Desktop

Instruction set

x86-64

Release date

August 2015

Launch price

US$ 339

Socket

LGA 1151

Memory

DDR4-2133, DDR3L-1600

Product page

intel.com ↗

Performance

Cores

4

Threads

8

Base clock

4 GHz

Boost clock

4.2 GHz

L2 cache

1 MB

L3 cache

8 MB

TDP

91 W

Process

14 nm

Integrated GPU

HD 530

Extensions

MMXSSESSE2SSE3SSSE3SSE4.1SSE4.2AESAVXF16CFMA3AVX2

SPEC CPU

SPECrate 2017 Integer (base)

23.5 ↗

SPECrate 2017 Floating Point (base)

24.6 ↗

Highest published base result on a system with one processor. Each score links to its result at spec.org; retrieved Nov 10, 2026.

SPEC CPU 2017 was retired in November 2026: no new results are published, and its scores cannot be compared with SPEC CPU 2026.

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