Product Compare

Intel Core i5 6600K vs Intel Core i5 12600K

	CPU Intel Core i5 6600K	CPU Intel Core i5 12600K
General Parameters
Release Date	Aug 2015	Oct 2021
Manufacturer	Intel	Intel
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Instruction Set	x86-64	x86-64
Core Architecture	Skylake	Alder Lake
Processor Number	i5-6600K	i5-12600K
Integrated Graphics	HD Graphics 530	UHD Graphics 770
Package
Manufacturing Process	14 nm	10 nm
Socket	LGA-1151	LGA-1700
Power Consumption	91 W	125 W
Max Turbo Power Consumption		150 W
Peak Operating Temperature		100°C
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	4	6
Performance Core Threads	4	12
Performance Core Base Frequency	3.5 GHz	3.7 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	3.9 GHz	4.9 GHz
Total Core Count	4	10
Total Thread Count	4	16
Bus Frequency	100 MHz	100 MHz
Multiplier	35	37x
L1 Cache	64 K per core	80 K per core
L2 Cache	256 K per core	9728 K shared
L3 Cache	6 MB shared	20 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	No	Yes
Efficiency Cores		4
Efficiency Core Threads		4
Efficiency Core Base Frequency		2.8 GHz
Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency		3.6 GHz
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR4-2133, DDR3L-1600	DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200
Max Memory Size	64 GB	128 GB
Max Memory Channels	2	2
Max Memory Bandwidth	34.1 GB/s	76.8 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	No	Yes
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics	true	true
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency	1150 MHz	1450 MHz
GPU Base Frequency		300 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	3.0	5.0
PCIe Lanes	16	20
Extended Instruction Set	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 Single Core	1040	1908
Cinebench R23 Multi Core	3963	17648
Geekbench 6 Single Core	1486	2548
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	4406	12188
Blender	63	278
Passmark CPU Single Core	2327	3956
Passmark CPU Multi Core	6329	27733