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Intel Core i7-6850K: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

Intel started Intel Core i7-6850K sales 31 May 2016 at a recommended price of $475. This is Broadwell-E architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 6 cores and 12 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 4000 MHz and an unlocked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA2011-3 processor with a TDP of 140 Watt and a maximum temperature of 72 °C. It supports DDR4-2400, DDR4-2133 memory.

It provides poor benchmark performance at 14.22 percent of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X.

General info

Of Core i7-6850K processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture and sales start time and price.

Place in performance rating

229

Value for money (0-100)

13.53

Type

Desktop

Architecture codename

Broadwell-E

Release date

31 May 2016

Launch price (MSRP)

$475

Price now

$441

of 8685 (Xeon E5-4650L)

Technical specs

Core i7-6850K's quantitative parameters such as cores and threads number, clocks, manufacturing process, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of Core i7-6850K's performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Number of cores

Number of threads

Base frequency

3.6 GHz

of 4.7 (FX-9590)

Maximum frequency

4 GHz

of 5.3 (Core i9-10900K)

L1 cache

32 KB (per core)

of 896 (Atom C3950)

L2 cache

256 KB (per core)

of 8192 (FX-8350)

L3 cache

15 MB (shared)

of 32 (Ryzen Threadripper 1998)

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

of 7 (Ryzen 3 3300)

Maximum case temperature (TCase)

72 °C

of 105 (Core i7-5557U)

64 bit support

Unlocked

Compatibility

Information on Core i7-6850K compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one.

Max number of CPUs in a configuration

of 8 (Opteron 842)

Socket

FCLGA2011-3

Power consumption (TDP)

140 Watt

of 650 (Atom Z500)

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core i7-6850K. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI

AVX

vPro

Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)

Turbo Boost

2.0

Hyper-Threading

Idle States

Smart Response

Turbo Boost Max 3.0

Security technologies

Core i7-6850K technologies aimed at raising security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT

EDB

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core i7-6850K are enumerated here.

VT-d

VT-x

EPT

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Core i7-6850K.

Supported memory types

DDR4-2400, DDR4-2133

of 4266 (Ryzen 9 4900H)

Maximum memory size

128 GB

of 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3)

Max memory channels

of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of Core i7-6850K's supported peripherals.

PCIe revision

3.0

Max number of PCIe lanes

of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Core i7-6850K. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

14.22

Passmark

11563

3DMark Fire Strike Physics

15290

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of Core i7-6850K. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

9.9 Mh/s

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good Core i7-6850K is for gaming compared with game system requirements. Remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.