Product Compare

Intel Core i5 12600 vs Intel Core i5 6600K

	CPU Intel Core i5 12600	CPU Intel Core i5 6600K
General Parameters
Release Date	Jan 2022	Aug 2015
Manufacturer	Intel	Intel
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Instruction Set	x86-64	x86-64
Core Architecture	Alder Lake	Skylake
Processor Number	i5-12600	i5-6600K
Integrated Graphics	UHD Graphics 770	HD Graphics 530
Package
Manufacturing Process	10 nm	14 nm
Socket	LGA-1700	LGA-1151
Power Consumption	65 W	91 W
Max Turbo Power Consumption	117 W
Peak Operating Temperature	100°C
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	6	4
Performance Core Threads	6	4
Performance Core Base Frequency	3.3 GHz	3.5 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	4.8 GHz	3.9 GHz
Total Core Count	6	4
Total Thread Count	12	4
Bus Frequency	100 MHz	100 MHz
Multiplier	33x	35
L1 Cache	80 K per core	64 K per core
L2 Cache	1280 K per core	256 K per core
L3 Cache	18 MB shared	6 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	No	No
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200	DDR4-2133, DDR3L-1600
Max Memory Size	128 GB	64 GB
Max Memory Channels	2	2
Max Memory Bandwidth	76.8 GB/s	34.1 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	Yes	No
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics	true	true
GPU Base Frequency	300 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency	1450 MHz	1150 MHz
Shader Units	256
Texture Units	16
Raster Operation Units	8
Execution Units	32
Power Consumption	15 W
Miscellaneous
Official Website	Official Link ↗	Official Link ↗
PCIe Version	5.0	3.0
PCIe Lanes	20	16
Extended Instruction Set		SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 Single Core	1853	1040
Cinebench R23 Multi Core	13367	3963
Geekbench 6 Single Core	2536	1486
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	10456	4406
Blender	180	63
Passmark CPU Single Core	3814	2327
Passmark CPU Multi Core	21246	6329