Intel Core i5-6600K: CPU Specs and Performance, Benchmarks
The Intel Core i5-6600K is a 4-core and 4-thread processor configuration with a base clock speed of 3500 MHz. The CPU specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below.
Performance (Benchmarks)
- Geekbench 5 Single-Core Score
- 1100
- Geekbench 5 Multi-Core Score
- 3614
- PassMark CPU Mark Rating
- 6292
- PassMark Single Thread Rating
- 2334
- 3DMark Time Spy Physics Score
- 3966
Processor Specs
- Processor
- Intel Core i5-6600K
- Frequency
- 3500 MHz
- Maximum Frequency
- 3900 MHz
- Cores
- 4
- Threads
- 4
- TDP
- 91 W
- GPU
- Intel HD Graphics 530
- Codename
- Skylake
- Package
- FCLGA1151

Geekbench 5 Benchmark
- Single-Core Score
- 1099
- Multi-Core Score
- 4108
- Benchmark
- Geekbench 5.4.1 Tryout for macOS x86 (64-bit)
System Information
- Operating System
- macOS 11.5.1 (Build 20G80)
- Model
- iMac17,1
- Model ID
- iMac17,1
- Motherboard
- Acidanthera Mac-DB15BD556843C820 iMac17,1
CPU Specifications
- Name
- Intel Core i5-6600K
- Topology
- 1 Processor, 4 Cores
- Identifier
- GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3
- Base Frequency
- 3.50 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
- 16.00 GB
- Transfer Rate
- 3200 MT/s
- Type
- DDR4
Geekbench 5 result (single)
| Single-Core Score | 1099 |
|---|---|
| Crypto Score | 1155 |
| Integer Score | 1081 |
| Floating Point Score | 1127 |
| AES-XTS | 1155 1.97 GB/sec |
| Text Compression (LZMA) | 1076 5.44 MB/sec |
| Image Compression | 1143 54.1 Mpixels/sec |
| Navigation (using Dijkstra's algorithm) | 1114 3.14 MTE/sec |
| HTML5 | 940 1.10 MElements/sec |
| SQLite | 1038 325.4 Krows/sec |
| PDF Rendering | 1124 61.0 Mpixels/sec |
| Text Rendering | 1086 346.1 KB/sec |
| Clang | 1051 8.19 Klines/sec |
| Camera | 1173 13.6 images/sec |
| N-Body Physics | 1029 1.29 Mpairs/sec |
| Rigid Body Physics | 1343 8318.9 FPS |
| Gaussian Blur | 329 18.1 Mpixels/sec |
| Face Detection | 681 5.24 images/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 1150 28.3 Mpixels/sec |
| Image Inpainting | 2263 111.0 Mpixels/sec |
| HDR | 2148 29.3 Mpixels/sec |
| Ray Tracing | 1205 967.8 Kpixels/sec |
| Structure from Motion | 1103 9.88 Kpixels/sec |
| Speech Recognition | 1165 37.2 Words/sec |
| Machine Learning | 1387 53.6 images/sec |
Geekbench 5 result (multi)
| Multi-Core Score | 4108 |
|---|---|
| Crypto Score | 6121 |
| Integer Score | 3836 |
| Floating Point Score | 4361 |
| AES-XTS | 6121 10.4 GB/sec |
| Text Compression (LZMA) | 3669 18.6 MB/sec |
| Image Compression | 4459 210.9 Mpixels/sec |
| Navigation (using Dijkstra's algorithm) | 3195 9.01 MTE/sec |
| HTML5 | 3408 4.00 MElements/sec |
| SQLite | 4125 1.29 Mrows/sec |
| PDF Rendering | 3960 214.9 Mpixels/sec |
| Text Rendering | 3829 1.19 MB/sec |
| Clang | 3804 29.6 Klines/sec |
| Camera | 4243 49.2 images/sec |
| N-Body Physics | 3778 4.73 Mpairs/sec |
| Rigid Body Physics | 5356 33180.9 FPS |
| Gaussian Blur | 4248 233.5 Mpixels/sec |
| Face Detection | 4714 36.3 images/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 4279 105.5 Mpixels/sec |
| Image Inpainting | 6688 328.1 Mpixels/sec |
| HDR | 7002 95.4 Mpixels/sec |
| Ray Tracing | 6659 5.35 Mpixels/sec |
| Structure from Motion | 3400 30.5 Kpixels/sec |
| Speech Recognition | 2073 66.3 Words/sec |
| Machine Learning | 2849 110.1 images/sec |