Core i7-6700K is a desktop processor from Intel released on 1 August 2015, and it is in active production status now. It belongs to Core i7 family and has a Skylake architecture. This processor is built on Intel Socket 1151, and uses Gen 3, 16 Lanes(CPU only) PCI express connection. 14 nm process is used in production.
Processor has 4 cores and 8 threads, with the base frequency of 4 GHz. It has DDR4-2133 MHz Dual-channel memory support. As for the cache, it supports L1 64K (per core), L2 256K (per core) and L3 8MB (shared).