Intel Atom C5310 vs Intel Core i7-6900K. Specifications

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

• CPU group
  Intel Atom C5000 Intel Core i 6000
• Family
  Intel Atom 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
  1.6 GHz 3.2 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Core Configuration
  4x -
• CPU Cores
  4 8
• CPU Threads
  4 16
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  - 3.7 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  - 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 i7-6900K and Intel Atom C5310. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  256 GB -
• Memory channels
  2 4
• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4-2400
• PCIe
  3.0 x 12 -
• PCIe lanes
  - 40
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Atom C5310 and Intel Core i7-6900K 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 -
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  32 W 140 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Atom C5310 and Intel Core i7-6900K, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Parker Ridge Skylake S
• Documents
  Technical data sheet -
• 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 MB -
• L3-Cache
  - 20 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2022 Q2/2016
• Socket
  BGA 2106 LGA 2011-3
• Technology
  10 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d