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AMD A8 7600 Cpu
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AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Cpu
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Intel Core i5 7600 Cpu
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Intel Core i7 6700K Cpu
Intel Core i7 6700K
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A good CPU for gaming, and for maintaining the status quo.Read more
Intel's Kaby Lake falls into the comes bearing the tuned 14nm+ process, a revamped graphics engine and a new chipset.Read more
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The biggest draw of the Core i7-6700K, Intel's first sixth-generation CPU, isn't the performance. Rather, it's the extra PCIe lanes that come with the supporting Z170 chipset, which may mean storage that's as fast as the processor.Read more
Another quad-core chip? Yup, but this one's a bit differentRead more
While it may not have been apparent due to their dominance in the x86 processor market, Intel has been facing some unique challenges as of late. Their definitive tick / tock cadence of process technology shrinks followed by base architectural changes has been slowing down. 22nm architectures...Read more
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General

Processor socketFM2+AM4LGA 1151LGA 1151
Component for
N/A
PCPCPC
Operating modes
N/A
  • 32-bit
  • 64-bit
64-bit64-bit

Processor

Clock speed3.1 GHz3.4 GHz3.5 GHz4.0 GHz
Max turbo speed3.8 GHz3.9 GHz4.1 GHz4.2 GHz
Number of cores4644
Thermal Design Power (TDP)65.0 W65.0 W65.0 W91.0 W
Processor lithography0.0 in0.0 in0.0 in0.0 in
Number of threads
N/A
1248
Bus type
N/A
N/A
DMI3DMI2
Idle states
N/A
N/A
yesyes

Integrated Graphics

On-board graphics adapteryesnoyesyes
TypeAMD Radeon R7Not availableIntel HD Graphics 630Intel HD Graphics 530
On-board graphics adapter base frequency720.0 MHz
N/A
350.0 MHz350.0 MHz
On-board graphics adapter DirectX version
N/A
N/A
12.012.0

Memory

Cache1 MB16 MB6 MB8 MB
Cache typeL2L3Smart CacheSmart Cache
Memory clock speeds supported by processor2133.0 MHz2933.0 MHz
  • 1333
  • 1600
  • 2133
  • 2400
  • 1600
  • 2133
Memory types supported by processorDDR3 SDRAMDDR4 SDRAM
  • DDR3L SDRAM
  • DDR4 SDRAM
  • DDR3L SDRAM
  • DDR4 SDRAM
Memory channels
N/A
DualDualDual
Maximum internal memory supported by processor
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N/A
64.0 GB64.0 GB
Memory bandwidth supported by processor (max)
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N/A
N/A
34.2 GB/s

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