Product Compare

Intel Core i7 12700 vs Intel Core i5 6600

	CPU Intel Core i7 12700	CPU Intel Core i5 6600
General Parameters
Release Date	Jan 2022	Sep 2015
Manufacturer	Intel	Intel
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Instruction Set	x86-64	x86-64
Core Architecture	Alder Lake	Skylake
Processor Number	i7-12700	i5-6600
Integrated Graphics	UHD Graphics 770	HD Graphics 530
Package
Manufacturing Process	10 nm	14 nm
Socket	LGA-1700	LGA-1151
Power Consumption	65 W	65 W
Max Turbo Power Consumption	180 W
Peak Operating Temperature	100°C
Transistor Count		1.75 billions
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	8	4
Performance Core Threads	16	4
Performance Core Base Frequency	2.1 GHz	3.3 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	4.8 GHz	3.9 GHz
Efficiency Cores	4
Efficiency Core Threads	4
Efficiency Core Base Frequency	1.6 GHz
Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency	3.6 GHz
Total Core Count	12	4
Total Thread Count	20	4
Bus Frequency	100 MHz	100 MHz
Multiplier	21x	33x
L1 Cache	80 K per core	64 K per core
L2 Cache	12 MB shared	256 K per core
L3 Cache	25 MB shared	6 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	No	No
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR4-3200, DDR5-4800	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	1500 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	1868	1042
Cinebench R23 Multi Core	20599	3810
Geekbench 6 Single Core	2491	1215
Geekbench 5 Single Core	1799	953
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	12863	3041
Geekbench 5 Multi Core	12519	3325
Blender	281	41
Passmark CPU Single Core	3921	2246
Passmark CPU Multi Core	30858	5989