Performance Index

ID 615781
Date 03/28/2024
Document Table of Contents

6th Generation Intel® Core™ Mobile Processors

Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors.

Performance results are based on testing as of dates shown in configurations and may not reflect all publicly available updates. See configuration disclosure for details. No product or component can be absolutely secure.

Series Use Case Claim Processor Systems Measured Measurement Measurement Period
Laptop Battery Life Watch up to 5 movies on a single charge 6th Generation Intel® Core™ i5 processor Dell* System XPS with Core i5-6200U As measured by Intel internal test of offline movie playback using the Microsoft Windows* player and manual loading of movies. Movie titles had an average length of 105 minutes, with 1280 HRes and 720 VRes and framerate 23.976 August 01, 2015
Laptop Battery Life Watch up to 5 movies with a 10 hour battery life 6th Generation Intel® Core™ i5 processor Dell System XPS with Core i5-6200U. Intel Reference Platform with Intel® Core™ i5-6200U processor, PL1=15W TDP, 2C4T, Turbo up to 3.4GHz/3.2GHz, Memory: 2x4GB DDR4-2133, Storage: Intel® SSD, Display Resolution: 1920x1080. Battery: 46 WHr. Graphics driver: 15.40.4225. For up to 5 movies claim: As measured by Intel internal test of offline movie playback using the Microsoft Windows* player and manual feeding of movies. Movie titles had an average length of 105 minutes, with 1280 HRes and 720 VRes and framerate 23.976. For 10 hour battery life claim: As measured by HD Video Battery life Rundown (in minutes): ‘Tears of Steel,’ 1080p, 23.976fps, H264, 3000kbps, rev1.mp4 >/=150nit, DPST=ON, no dimming, balanced, Wi-Fi connected. August 01, 2015
Laptop Productivity Up to 2X Better performance versus a 6th gen 4-Core processors 6th Generation The Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition Intel® Core™ i7-6950X processor (3.0GHz up to 3.5GHz, 10C/20T, 25MB, 140W TDP) vs. Intel® Core™ i7-6700K processor (4GHz up to 4.2GHz, 4C/8T, 8MB, 91W TDP) 1X better multithreaded performance Intel® Core™ i7-6950X processor vs. Intel® Core™ i7-6700K processor. Estimation based on SPECint*_​rate_​base2006 scores (multithreaded) comparing Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel® microprocessors August 01, 2015
Laptop Gaming UP to 30% Better gaming system performance compared to the previous generation 6th Generation The Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition Intel® Core™ i7-6950X processor (3.0GHz up to 3.5GHz, 10C/20T, 25MB, 140W TDP) measured on - Motherboard: Gigabyte X99 Designare, Memory: 8x8GB DDR4-2133MHz, Storage: Intel 750 PCIe* SSD -400GB, OS: Windows* 10 (TH2), Graphics: Nvidia* GTX 980Ti (Driver v364.51), BIOS:BIOS D10, Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology driver Beta Version1.0.0.1025, System Power Management Policy: Balanced vs. Intel® Core™ i7-5960X processor (3.0GHz up to 3.5GHz, 8C/16T, 20MB, 140W TDP) measured on - Motherboard: Gigabyte X99 SOC Champion, Memory: 4x4GB DDR4-2133MHz, Storage: Intel 750 PCIe* SSD -400GB, OS: Windows* 10 (TH2), Graphics: Nvidia* GTX 980Ti (Driver v364.51), BIOS: BIOS F21A, System Power Management Policy: High Performance. Based on measured 3DMark* Fire Strike* Physics Score () using 3DMark*. 3DMark* 1.2 is a benchmark from Futuremark* that measures DX* 9 / OpenGL* ES 2.0, OpenGL ES 3.0/3.1, DX 10, and DX 11 gaming performance. There are five main tests: “Ice Storm” for DX 9 / OpenGL ES 2.0, “Sling Shot” for OpenGL ES 3.0/3.1, “Cloud Gate” for DX 10, “Sky Diver” for DX11 and “Fire Strike” for DX 11 graphics. Reported metrics: Graphics Score (GPU), Physics Score (CPU), Combined Score (GPU & CPU) and an overall 3DMark* Score (higher is better for all Scores). OS support: Desktop Windows*, Android*, iOS*, and Windows* RT August 01, 2015
Laptop Content Creation UP TO 25% faster 4K Video Editing compared to the previous generation 6th Generation The Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition Intel® Core™ i7-6950X processor (3.0GHz up to 3.5GHz, 10C/20T, 25MB, 140W TDP) measured on - Motherboard: Gigabyte X99 Designare, Memory: 8x8GB DDR4-2133MHz, Storage: Intel 750 PCIe* SSD -400GB, OS: Windows* 10 (TH2), Graphics: Nvidia* GTX 980Ti (Driver v364.51), BIOS:BIOS D10, Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology driver Beta Version1.0.0.1025, System Power Management Policy: Balanced vs. Intel® Core™ i7-5960X processor (3.0GHz up to 3.5GHz, 8C/16T, 20MB, 140W TDP) measured on - Motherboard: Gigabyte X99 SOC Champion, Memory: 4x4GB DDR4-2133MHz, Storage: Intel 750 PCIe* SSD -400GB, OS: Windows* 10 (TH2), Graphics: Nvidia* GTX 980Ti (Driver v364.51), BIOS: BIOS F21A, System Power Management Policy: High Performance. Based on measured Adobe* Premier Pro Workload. Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015.1 The project contains seven clips totaling 2 minutes and 21 seconds of 4K H.264 MP4 footage recorded at a bit rate of approximately 80 Mbps. The input file sizes total 1.90 GB. The video stream is 3840x2160 (4K) in H.264 format with a framerate of 29.97 FPS. The audio stream is 1536 Kbps, 48.0 KHz, 16 bit Stereo in WAV format. The performance test measures the time to export the entire clip to a 4K H.264 MP4 format. The output is a high quality 4K video file August 01, 2015
Laptop Content Creation UP TO 35% better 3D rendering performance compared to the previous generation. 6th Generation The Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition Intel® Core™ i7-6950X processor (3.0GHz up to 3.5GHz, 10C/20T, 25MB, 140W TDP) measured on - Motherboard: Gigabyte X99 Designare, Memory: 8x8GB DDR4-2133MHz, Storage: Intel 750 PCIe* SSD -400GB, OS: Windows* 10 (TH2), Graphics: Nvidia GTX 980Ti (Driver v364.51), BIOS:BIOS D10, Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology driver Beta Version1.0.0.1025, System Power Management Policy: Balanced vs. Intel® Core™ i7-5960X processor (3.0GHz up to 3.5GHz, 8C/16T, 20MB, 140W TDP) measured on - Motherboard: Gigabyte X99 SOC Champion, Memory: 4x4GB DDR4-2133MHz, Storage: Intel 750 PCIe* SSD -400GB, OS: Windows* 10 (TH2), Graphics: Nvidia* GTX 980Ti (Driver v364.51), BIOS: BIOS F21A, System Power Management Policy: High Performance. Based on measured Cinebench* R15. CINEBENCH* R11.5 and R15 is a benchmark from MAXON Computer that measures the performance of desktop OpenGL* 3D modeling applications.Includes 15% better single threaded performance vs. previous generation from Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 measured on SPECint*_​base2006. SPEC* CPU2000/2006 is a benchmark from the SPEC consortium that measures device performance and throughput using compute intensive application subtests. SPECint*_​base2000/2006 measures how fast a device completes a single integer compute task. SPECint*_​rate_​base2000/2006 measures throughput, or how many integer compute tasks a device can accomplish in a given amount of time. OS support: Desktop Windows*, UNIX*/Linux*, and Mac* OS. Intel internal test. August 01, 2015
Laptop Productivity Up to 2.5x better productivity performance than a 5 year old PC or Up to 150% better productivity performance than a 5 year old PC 6th Generation Intel® Core™ i5 processor Intel Reference Platform with Intel® Core™ i5-6200U processor, PL1=15W TDP, 2C4T, Turbo up to 3.4GHz/3.2GHz, Memory: 2x4GB DDR4-2133, Storage: Intel® SSD, Display Resolution: 1920x1080. Battery: 46 WHr, Graphics driver: 15.40.4225 5 year old: Intel® Core™ i5-520UM processor (1.06GHz up to 1.86GHz, 2C4T, 3MB) measured on Acer* Aspire 1830T, Memory: 4GB DDR3 1600MHz, Storage: 500GB hard drive, Display: 11” 1366x768 resolution, Battery: 63WHr, OS: Windows* 7 As measured by SYSmark* 2014, a benchmark from the BAPCo* consortium that measures the performance of Windows* platforms on real-world applications. Learn more at: bapco.com August 01, 2015
2 in 1 Graphics Up to 30x better HD graphics than a 5-year-old PC 6th Generation Intel® Core™ i5 processor Intel Reference Platform with Intel® Core™ i5-6200U processor, PL1=15W TDP, 2C4T, Turbo up to 3.4GHz/3.2GHz, Memory: 2x4GB DDR4-2133, Storage: Intel® SSD, Display Resolution: 1920x1080. Battery: 46 WHr. Graphics driver: 15.40.4225 vs. 5 year old: Intel® Core™ i5-520UM processor (1.06GHz up to 1.86GHz, 2C4T, 3MB) measured on Acer* Aspire 1830T, Memory: 4GB DDR3 1600MHz, Storage: 500GB hard drive, Display: 11” 1366x768 resolution, Battery: 63WHr, OS: Windows* 7 As measured by graphics subtest of 3DMark* Cloud Gate, a benchmark from Futuremark* that measures DX10 gaming performance. Learn more at: Futuremark.com August 01, 2015
Laptop Productivity Up to 2.5x better productivity performance than a 5 year old PC 6th Generation Intel® Core™ i5 processor Intel Reference Platform with Intel® Core™ i5-6200U processor, PL1=15W TDP, 2C4T, Turbo up to 3.4GHz/3.2GHz, Memory: 2x4GB DDR4-2133, Storage: Intel® SSD, Display Resolution: 1920x1080. Battery: 46 WHr, Graphics driver: 15.40.4225 vs. 5 year old: Intel® Core™ i5-520UM processor (1.06GHz up to 1.86GHz, 2C4T, 3MB) measured on Acer* Aspire 1830T, Memory: 4GB DDR3 1600MHz, Storage: 500GB hard drive, Display: 11” 1366x768 resolution, Battery: 63WHr, OS: Windows* 7 As measured by SYSmark* 2014, a benchmark from the BAPCo* consortium that measures the performance of Windows* platforms on real-world applications. Learn more at: bapco.com August 01, 2015
2-in-1 Web Performance Up to 2.7x better web application responsiveness than a 5 year old PC 6th Generation Intel® Core™ i5 processor Intel Reference Platform with Intel® Core™ i5-6200U processor, PL1=15W TDP, 2C4T, Turbo up to 3.4GHz/3.2GHz, Memory: 2x4GB DDR4-2133, Storage: Intel® SSD, Display Resolution: 1920x1080. Battery: 46 WHr. Graphics driver: 15.40.4225 vs. 5 year old: Intel® Core™ i5-520UM processor (1.06GHz up to 1.86GHz, 2C4T, 3MB) measured on Acer Aspire* 1830T, Memory: 4GB DDR3 1600MHz, Storage: 500GB hard drive, Display: 11” 1366x768 resolution, Battery: 63WHr, OS: Windows* 7 As measured by WebXPRT*2015, a benchmark from Principled Technologies that measures the performance of web applications. Learn more at: principledtechnologies.com August 01, 2015