Intel Atom C5310 vs Intel Core i7-6900K. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Family
  Intel Atom Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition
• CPU group
  Intel Atom C5000 Intel Core i 6000
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  6 6

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Frequency
  1.60 GHz 3.20 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU no iGPU
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• JPEG
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-6900K and Intel Atom C5310. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4-2400
• Max. Memory
  256 GB
• Memory channels
  2 4
• ECC
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Atom C5310 and Intel Core i7-6900K to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  32 W 140 W
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Atom C5310 and Intel Atom C5310, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, Intel QAT SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  9.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 20.00 MB
• Architecture
  Parker Ridge Skylake S
• Technology
  10 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• Socket
  BGA 2106 LGA 2011-3
• Release date
  Q2/2022 Q2/2016