Product Compare

Intel Core i7 6700K vs AMD EPYC 7742

	CPU Intel Core i7 6700K	CPU AMD EPYC 7742
General Parameters
Release Date	Aug 2015	Aug 2019
Manufacturer	Intel	AMD
Type	Desktop	Server
Instruction Set	x86-64
Core Architecture	Skylake	Rome
Processor Number	i7-6700K
Integrated Graphics	HD Graphics 530	N/A
Generation		EPYC (Zen 2 (Rome))
Package
Transistor Count	1.75 billions	3.8 billions
Manufacturing Process	14 nm	7 nm
Socket	LGA-1151	AMD Socket SP3
Power Consumption	91 W	225 W
Foundry		TSMC
Die Size		74 mm²
Package		FCLGA-4094
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	4
Performance Core Threads	8
Performance Core Base Frequency	4.0 GHz	2.25 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	4.2 GHz	3.4 GHz
Total Core Count	4	64
Total Thread Count	8	128
Bus Frequency	100 MHz	100 MHz
Multiplier	40	22.5
L1 Cache	64 K per core	96 K per core
L2 Cache	256 K per core	512 K per core
L3 Cache	8 MB shared	256 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	Yes	No
SMP		2
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR4-2133,DDR3L-1600	DDR4-3200
Max Memory Size	64 GB
Max Memory Channels	2	8
Max Memory Bandwidth	34.1 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	No	Yes
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics	true
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency	1150 MHz
Miscellaneous
Official Website	Official Link ↗
PCIe Version	3.0	4
PCIe Lanes	16
Extended Instruction Set	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 Single Core	1512	404
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	5068	170