Product Compare

Intel Core i5 6600K vs Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus

	CPU Intel Core i5 6600K	CPU Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus
General Parameters
Release Date	Aug 2015	Mar 2026
Manufacturer	Intel	Intel
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Instruction Set	x86-64	x86-64
Core Architecture	Skylake	Arrow Lake
Processor Number	i5-6600K	270K+
Integrated Graphics	HD Graphics 530	Arc iGPU (4-Cores)
Package
Manufacturing Process	14 nm	3 nm
Socket	LGA-1151	FCLGA-1851
Power Consumption	91 W	125 W
Transistor Count		17.8 billions
Max Turbo Power Consumption		250 W
Peak Operating Temperature		105 °C
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	4	8
Performance Core Threads	4	8
Performance Core Base Frequency	3.5 GHz	3.7 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	3.9 GHz	5.4 GHz
Total Core Count	4	24
Total Thread Count	4	24
Bus Frequency	100 MHz	100 MHz
Multiplier	35	37
L1 Cache	64 K per core	192 K per core
L2 Cache	256 K per core	3 MB per core
L3 Cache	6 MB shared	36 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	No	Yes
Efficiency Cores		16
Efficiency Core Threads		16
Efficiency Core Base Frequency		3.2 GHz
Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency		4.7 GHz
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR4-2133, DDR3L-1600	DDR5-7200
Max Memory Size	64 GB	256 GB
Max Memory Channels	2	2
Max Memory Bandwidth	34.1 GB/s	115.2 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	No	Yes
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics	true	true
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency	1150 MHz	2000 MHz
GPU Base Frequency		300 MHz
Shader Units		512
Texture Units		32
Raster Operation Units		16
Execution Units		64
Power Consumption		14
Miscellaneous
Official Website	Official Link ↗	Official Link ↗
PCIe Version	3.0	5.0
PCIe Lanes	16	24
Extended Instruction Set	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 Single Core	1040	2450
Cinebench R23 Multi Core	3963	43070
Geekbench 6 Single Core	1486	3749
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	4406	27432
Passmark CPU Single Core	2327	5081
Passmark CPU Multi Core	6329	68825