Intel Core i5-6600: CPU Specs and Performance, Benchmarks
The Intel Core i5-6600 is a 4-core and 4-thread processor configuration with a base clock speed of 3300 MHz. The CPU specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below.
Performance (Benchmarks)
- Geekbench 5 Single-Core Score
- 957
- Geekbench 5 Multi-Core Score
- 3110
- PassMark CPU Mark Rating
- 6093
- PassMark Single Thread Rating
- 2278
- 3DMark Time Spy Physics Score
- 3496
Processor Specs
- Processor
- Intel Core i5-6600
- Frequency
- 3300 MHz
- Maximum Frequency
- 3900 MHz
- Cores
- 4
- Threads
- 4
- TDP
- 65 W
- GPU
- Intel HD Graphics 530
- Codename
- Skylake
- Package
- FCLGA1151

Geekbench 5 Benchmark
- Single-Core Score
- 958
- Multi-Core Score
- 3309
- Benchmark
- Geekbench 5.4.1 Tryout for macOS x86 (64-bit)
System Information
- Operating System
- macOS 10.14.5 (Build 18F132)
- Model
- iMac (27-inch Retina Late 2015)
- Model ID
- iMac17,1
- Motherboard
- Dell Inc. Mac-DB15BD556843C820 iMac17,1
CPU Specifications
- Name
- Intel Core i5-6600
- Topology
- 1 Processor, 4 Cores
- Identifier
- GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3
- Base Frequency
- 3.31 GHz
- L1 Instruction Cache
- 32.0 KB x 2
- L1 Data Cache
- 32.0 KB x 2
- L2 Cache
- 256 KB x 2
- L3 Cache
- 6.00 MB x 1
Memory Information
- Size
- 8.00 GB
- Transfer Rate
- 2133 MT/s
- Type
- DDR4
Geekbench 5 result (single)
| Single-Core Score | 958 |
|---|---|
| Crypto Score | 983 |
| Integer Score | 949 |
| Floating Point Score | 974 |
| AES-XTS | 983 1.68 GB/sec |
| Text Compression (LZMA) | 971 4.91 MB/sec |
| Image Compression | 1000 47.3 Mpixels/sec |
| Navigation (using Dijkstra's algorithm) | 941 2.65 MTE/sec |
| HTML5 | 831 975.4 KElements/sec |
| SQLite | 926 290.0 Krows/sec |
| PDF Rendering | 977 53.0 Mpixels/sec |
| Text Rendering | 960 305.8 KB/sec |
| Clang | 943 7.35 Klines/sec |
| Camera | 1000 11.6 images/sec |
| N-Body Physics | 936 1.17 Mpairs/sec |
| Rigid Body Physics | 1185 7339.4 FPS |
| Gaussian Blur | 287 15.8 Mpixels/sec |
| Face Detection | 600 4.62 images/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 982 24.2 Mpixels/sec |
| Image Inpainting | 1950 95.6 Mpixels/sec |
| HDR | 1826 24.9 Mpixels/sec |
| Ray Tracing | 1070 859.4 Kpixels/sec |
| Structure from Motion | 946 8.47 Kpixels/sec |
| Speech Recognition | 1000 32.0 Words/sec |
| Machine Learning | 1108 42.8 images/sec |
Geekbench 5 result (multi)
| Multi-Core Score | 3309 |
|---|---|
| Crypto Score | 4005 |
| Integer Score | 3097 |
| Floating Point Score | 3651 |
| AES-XTS | 4005 6.83 GB/sec |
| Text Compression (LZMA) | 3011 15.2 MB/sec |
| Image Compression | 3653 172.8 Mpixels/sec |
| Navigation (using Dijkstra's algorithm) | 2234 6.30 MTE/sec |
| HTML5 | 2903 3.41 MElements/sec |
| SQLite | 3371 1.06 Mrows/sec |
| PDF Rendering | 3115 169.1 Mpixels/sec |
| Text Rendering | 3118 993.4 KB/sec |
| Clang | 3337 26.0 Klines/sec |
| Camera | 3366 39.0 images/sec |
| N-Body Physics | 3146 3.94 Mpairs/sec |
| Rigid Body Physics | 4373 27092.0 FPS |
| Gaussian Blur | 3446 189.5 Mpixels/sec |
| Face Detection | 3834 29.5 images/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 3371 83.1 Mpixels/sec |
| Image Inpainting | 5114 250.9 Mpixels/sec |
| HDR | 6310 86.0 Mpixels/sec |
| Ray Tracing | 5525 4.44 Mpixels/sec |
| Structure from Motion | 3268 29.3 Kpixels/sec |
| Speech Recognition | 2139 68.4 Words/sec |
| Machine Learning | 2011 77.7 images/sec |