| Attribute |
Intel Core i7-6700 × | 
AMD Phenom II X4 955 × |
| General Information | | |
| Brand | Intel | AMD |
| Series | Intel Core i7 | AMD Phenom II |
| Model | Intel Core i7-6700 | AMD Phenom II X4 955 |
| CPU Cores and Base Frequency | | |
| CPU Cores | 4 | 4 |
| Frequency (GHz) | 3.4 | 3.2 |
| CPU Threads | 8 | 4 |
| Core architecture | normal | normal |
| Hyperthreading | + | - |
| Overclocking | - | + |
| Turbo (1 Core) (GHz) | 4 | - |
| Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz) | 3.7 | - |
| Encryption | | |
| AES-NI | + | - |
| Hardware codec support | | |
| JPEG | Decode / Encode | No |
| h264 | Decode / Encode | No |
| h265 / HEVC (8 bit) | Decode / Encode | No |
| h265 / HEVC (10 bit) | Decode | No |
| VP8 | Decode / Encode | No |
| AV1 | No | No |
| VC-1 | Decode | No |
| VP9 | Decode | No |
| AVC | Decode / Encode | No |
| Internal Graphics | | |
| GPU name | Intel HD Graphics 530 | - |
| GPU frequency (GHz) | 0.35 | - |
| GPU (Turbo) (GHz) | 1.15 | - |
| Generation | 9 | - |
| DirectX Version | 12 | - |
| Execution units | 24 | - |
| Shader | 192 | - |
| Max. GPU Memory (GB) | 64 | - |
| Max. displays | 3 | - |
| GPU Release date (year) | 2015 | - |
| Memory And PCIe | | |
| Memory type | - | DDR2-1066 |
| Max. Memory (GB) | 64 | - |
| PCIe lanes | 16 | - |
| PCIe version | 3.0 | - |
| ECC | - | - |
| Memory channels | 2 | 2 |
| Technical details | | |
| Release date (year) | 2015 | 2009 |
| Technology (Nm) | 14 | - |
| Socket | LGA 1151 | AM3 |
| Virtualization | | |
| L3-Cache (MB) | 8 | 6 |
| Architecture | Skylake | Deneb |
| Instruction set (ISA) | x86-64 (64 bit) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| Thermal Management | | |
| TDP (PL1) (W) | 65 | 125 |
| Benchmarks | | |
| iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS) | 442 | - |
| Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark | 10,212 | 3,987 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 983 | 422 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 3,801 | 1,401 |
| Cinebench R15 (Single-Core) | 171 | 84 |
| Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core) | 816 | 324 |
| Cinebench R20 (Single-Core) | 406 | - |
| Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core) | 1,774 | 651 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 2.08 | 0.97 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 9.12 | 3.82 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core) | 4,519 | 1,709 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 15,655 | 5,984 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (iGPU, OpenGL) | 41.4 | - |
| Blender 2.81 (bmw27) | 409.7 | - |
| Cinebench R23 (Single-Core) | 1,071 | 488 |
| Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core) | 4,921 | 1,967 |