Intel Core i7-6800K vs Intel Core i7-6850K. Specifications

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

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

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  3.4 GHz 3.6 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  6 6
• CPU Threads
  12 12
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.6 GHz 3.8 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  No turbo No turbo

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.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-6850K and Intel Core i7-6800K. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  128 GB 128 GB
• Memory channels
  4 4
• Memory type
  DDR4-2133DDR4-2400 DDR4-2133DDR4-2400
• PCIe lanes
  28 40
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i7-6800K and Intel Core i7-6850K Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  100 °C 100 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  140 W 140 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i7-6800K and Intel Core i7-6850K, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Skylake S Skylake S
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  15.00 MB 15.00 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2016 Q2/2016
• Socket
  LGA 2011-3 LGA 2011-3
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d