Intel Core i7-6660U

The Intel Core i7-6660U operates with:

CPU Cores 2.

CPU Threads: 4.

Performance-enhancing, system-enhancing technology that works faster and saves battery with:

Turbo: 3.40 GHz base No turbo all cores.

TDP: 15 W.

The processor is attached to:

CPU socket: BGA 1356.

This version includes

4.00 MB of L3 cache on one chip

Supports 2 memory channels to support DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM
DDR4-2133 SO-DIMM
LPDDR3-1866 RAM and features 3.0 PCIe Gen 12 lanes.

Tjunction keeps below 100 °C degrees C.

In particular, Skylake U Architecture is enhanced with:

Technology: 14 nm

Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d.

The product was released on Q1/2016.

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CPU generation and family

Name:

Intel Core i7-6660U

Family:

Intel Core i7

CPU group:

Intel Core i 6000U

Predecessor:

Segment:

Mobile

Generation:

Successor:

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Frequency:

2.40 GHz

Turbo (1 Core):

3.40 GHz

Turbo (64 Cores)::

Hyperthreading:

Yes

Core architecture:

normal

CPU Cores:

CPU Threads:

Overclocking:

Memory & PCIe

Memory type:

DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM
DDR4-2133 SO-DIMM
LPDDR3-1866

PCIe version:

3.0

Memory channels:

PCIe version:

3.0

PCIe lanes:

Encryption

AES-NI:

Yes

Internal Graphics

Memory type:

DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM
DDR4-2133 SO-DIMM
LPDDR3-1866

GPU name:

Intel Iris Graphics 540

GPU frequency:

0.30 GHz

GPU (Turbo):

1.05 GHz

Generation:

DirectX Version:

Execution units:

Shader:

384

Max memory:

Max. displays:

Technology:

14 nm

Release date:

Q3/2015

Technical details

Instruction set (ISA):

x86-64 (64 bit)

Architecture:

Skylake U

L2-Cache:

Virtualization:

VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d

L3-Cache:

4.00 MB

Release date:

Q1/2016

Socket:

BGA 1356

Thermal Management

TDP (PL1):

15 W

TDP (PL2):

TDP Up:

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.

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