Intel Core i7-8700 vs Intel Pentium Gold G6600

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Physical Specifications

Socket Intel Socket 1151 Intel Socket 1200
Foundry Intel Intel
Process size 14 nm 14 nm
Transistors unknown unknown
Die size 154 mm² unknown
Package FC-LGA1151 FC-LGA1200
tCaseMax 72°C 72°C
tJMax 100°C

Performance

Frequency 3.2 GHz 4.2 GHz
Turbo clock up to 4.6 GHz
Base clock 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 32.0x 42.0x
Multiplier unlocked No No
TDP 65 W 58 W
PL1 58 W
PL2 58 W
FP32 268.8 GFLOPS

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Desktop Desktop
Production status Active Active
Release date Jan 1st, 2018 Apr 30th, 2020
Codename Coffee Lake Comet Lake
Generation Core i7 Pentium Gold
Part SR3QS SRH3S
Memory support DDR4-2666 MHz Dual-channel DDR4-2666 MHz Dual-channel
ECC memory No No
PCI Express Gen 3, 16 Lanes(CPU only) Gen 3, 16 Lanes(CPU only)

Cores

Total Cores 6 2
Total Threads 12 4
SMP # CPUs 1 1
Integrated graphics UHD Graphics 630

Cache

Cache L1 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
Cache L2 256K (per core) 256K (per core)
Cache L3 12MB (shared) 4MB (shared)

Features & Technologies

ABM Yes
ADX Yes
AES-NI Yes Yes
AVX Yes Yes
AVX2 Yes Yes
BMI1 Yes Yes
BMI2 Yes Yes
Boost 2.0 Yes
CLMUL Yes Yes
EIST Yes Yes
F16C Yes Yes
FMA3 Yes Yes
HTT Yes
Intel 64 Yes Yes
MMX Yes Yes
RdRand Yes
SSE Yes Yes
SSE2 Yes Yes
SSE3 Yes Yes
SSE4.2 Yes Yes
SSSE3 Yes Yes
TSX Yes Yes
TXT Yes Yes
VT-d Yes Yes
VT-x Yes Yes
XD bit Yes Yes

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