Product Compare

Intel Core i5 6600K vs Intel Core Ultra 7 356H

	CPU Intel Core i5 6600K	CPU Intel Core Ultra 7 356H
General Parameters
Release Date	Aug 2015	Jan 2026
Manufacturer	Intel	Intel
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Instruction Set	x86-64	x86-64
Core Architecture	Skylake	Panther Lake
Processor Number	i5-6600K	356H
Integrated Graphics	HD Graphics 530	Graphics 4 Xe3
Generation		Intel Core Ultra Series 3
Package
Manufacturing Process	14 nm	3 nm
Socket	LGA-1151	Custom
Power Consumption	91 W	15-25 W
Max Turbo Power Consumption		80 W
Peak Operating Temperature		100 °C
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	4	4
Performance Core Threads	4	4
Performance Core Base Frequency	3.5 GHz	1.9 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	3.9 GHz	4.7 GHz
Total Core Count	4	16
Total Thread Count	4	16
Bus Frequency	100 MHz	100 MHz
Multiplier	35	19
L1 Cache	64 K per core	192 K per core
L2 Cache	256 K per core	2560 K per core
L3 Cache	6 MB shared	18 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	No	No
Efficiency Cores		12
Efficiency Core Threads		12
Efficiency Core Base Frequency		1.5 GHz
Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency		3.7 GHz
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR4-2133, DDR3L-1600	LPDDR5X-8533,DDR5-7200
Max Memory Size	64 GB	128 GB
Max Memory Channels	2	2
Max Memory Bandwidth	34.1 GB/s	136.5 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	No	No
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics	true	true
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency	1150 MHz	2450 MHz
GPU Base Frequency		800 MHz
Shader Units		1024
Texture Units		64
Raster Operation Units		32
Execution Units		4
Power Consumption		25
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
AI Accelerator
Theoretical performance		50 TOPS
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 Single Core	1040	2003
Cinebench R23 Multi Core	3963	18102
Geekbench 6 Single Core	1486	2738
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	4406	15294