Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus vs i7 6700K

We compared two desktop CPUs: the 3.7 GHz Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus with 24-cores against the 4.0 GHz i7 6700K with 4-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
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Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
VS
136.0
(Excellent)
Value Index
8.8
(Bad)

Key Differences

What are the key differences between 6700K and Plus
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus
  • Newer - released 10 years and 9 months later
  • Has 20 more physical cores
  • More modern manufacturing process – 3 versus 14 nanometers
  • Has 28 MB larger L3 cache size, helping fully utilize a high-end GPU in gaming
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-7200 RAM
  • Around 81.1 GB/s (238%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
  • 2.5x faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 3750 vs 1512 points
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
  • 29% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.4 GHz vs 4.2 GHz)

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Cinebench 2026 (Single) 595 -
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) 9722 -
Cinebench Scores (#4th place)

GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
File compression 2000 MB/sec 428.4 MB/sec
Clang compilation 297.3 Klines/sec 35.7 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 635.2 pages/sec 116.8 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 716 Mpixels/sec 168.3 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 447.5 pages/sec 152.1 pages/sec
Background blur 116 images/sec 28 images/sec
Photo processing 210.5 images/sec 50.9 images/sec
Ray tracing 59 Mpixels/sec 6.53 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 1195 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Integer math 175.8 GOps/sec 28.2 GOps/sec
Floating point math 229.2 GOps/sec 17.4 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 612M Primes/sec 30M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 96.8M Strings/sec 15.8M Strings/sec
Data encryption 59 GBytes/sec 3.1 GBytes/sec
Data compression 803 MBytes/sec 125.7 MBytes/sec
Physics 4038 Frames/sec 636 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 63.4B Matrices/sec 8.3B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 1837 & 19003 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 19.9 PPW 3.1 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 219.2 PPW 55.7 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 547.7 PPW 98.2 PPW
Blender / Watt 4.92 PPW 0.9 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-12 (coolguy)Cinebench 20260 / 8872
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-25 (Adnan)Cinebench 2024144 / 2490
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-13 (sparehobos)Cinebench 2024147 / 2614
πŸ“˜ 2026-04-11 (Daniel Comeau)Cinebench 2026568 / 8929
πŸ“˜ 2026-04-07 (IdiotStick)Cinebench 2026595 / 9722
Intel Core i7 6700K
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-11-08 (CRSTN)Cinebench 202467 / 328
πŸ“˜ 2024-09-27 (A)Cinebench 202454 / 279

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and i7 6700K

General

Vendor Intel Intel
Released March 12, 2026 August 5, 2015
Type Desktop Desktop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Arrow Lake Skylake
Model number 270K+ i7-6700K
Integrated GPU Arc iGPU (4-Cores) HD Graphics 530
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 9 9950X -
Successor - - Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus
Intel CPU rating (#1st place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 8 4
P-Threads 8 8
Base Frequency (P) 3.7 GHz 4.0 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5.4 GHz 4.2 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 16 -
E-Threads 16 -
Base Frequency (E) 3.2 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 4.7 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 24 4
Total Threads 24 8
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 37x 40x
Bus Bandwidth - 8 GT/s
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 3MB (per core) 256K (per core)
L3 Cache 36MB (shared) 8MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier Yes Yes

Package

Transistors 17.8 billions 1.75 billions
Fabrication Process 3 nm 14 nm
TDP (PL1) 125 W 91 W
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 250 W -
Socket FCLGA-1851 LGA-1151
Peak Temperature 105Β°C -
Desktop CPU ranking (2nd and 178th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores) Intel HD Graphics 530
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz -
GPU Boost Clock 2000 MHz 1150 MHz
Shading Units 512 -
TMUs 32 -
ROPs 16 -
Execution Units 64 -
TGP 14 W -
iGPU FLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR5-7200 - DDR4-2133
- DDR3L-1600
Max. Memory Size 256 GB 64 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 115.2 GB/s 34.1 GB/s
ECC Support Yes No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus official page Intel Core i7 6700K official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 3.0
PCI Express Lanes 24 16

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