Intel Core i7-6970HQ

The Intel Core i7-6970HQ operates with:

CPU Cores 4.

CPU Threads: 8.

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

Turbo: 3.70 GHz base 3.30 GHz all cores.

TDP: 45 W.

The processor is attached to:

CPU socket: BGA 1440.

This version includes

8.00 MB of L3 cache on one chip

Supports 2 memory channels to support DDR4-2133 SO-DIMM RAM and features 3.0 PCIe Gen 20 lanes.

Tjunction keeps below 100 °C degrees C.

In particular, Skylake H 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 i7-6970HQ

Family:

Intel Core i7

CPU group:

Intel Core i 6000H

Predecessor:

Segment:

Mobile

Generation:

Successor:

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Frequency:

2.80 GHz

Turbo (1 Core):

3.70 GHz

Turbo (64 Cores)::

Hyperthreading:

Yes

Core architecture:

normal

CPU Cores:

CPU Threads:

Overclocking:

Memory & PCIe

Memory type:

DDR4-2133 SO-DIMM

PCIe version:

3.0

Memory channels:

PCIe version:

3.0

PCIe lanes:

Encryption

AES-NI:

Yes

Internal Graphics

Memory type:

DDR4-2133 SO-DIMM

GPU name:

Intel Iris Pro Graphics 580

GPU frequency:

0.35 GHz

GPU (Turbo):

1.05 GHz

Generation:

DirectX Version:

12.0

Execution units:

Shader:

576

Max memory:

Max. displays:

Technology:

14 nm

Release date:

Q3/2015

Technical details

Instruction set (ISA):

x86-64 (64 bit)

Architecture:

Skylake H

L2-Cache:

Virtualization:

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

L3-Cache:

8.00 MB

Release date:

Q1/2016

Socket:

BGA 1440

Thermal Management

TDP (PL1):

45 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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