Intel Core i7-6700HQ vs Intel Core i5-3337U

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2465 points
160% significantly better overall score
946 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3937 points
110% significantly better gaming score
1866 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2027 points
187% significantly better multitasking score
706 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1949 points
187% significantly better heavy workload score
677 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

56.39 points
458% significantly higher Blender score
10.10 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3315 points
307% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
814 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1050 points
166% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
394 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3434 points
325% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
808 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1099 points
172% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
403 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
44% significantly higher clock speed
1.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
29% slightly higher turbo speed
2.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
17 W
164% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

637th of 1,092
973rd of 1,092

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2013 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

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