Core i5-6600K Memory Benchmarks – AIDA64 and SiSoft Sandra
AIDA64 Engineer
AIDA64 Engineer is a streamlined Windows diagnostic and benchmarking software for engineers. It has unique capabilities to assess the performance of the processor, system memory, and disk drives. AIDA64 is compatible with all current 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows operating systems, including Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. Memory and cache benchmarks are available to analyze system RAM bandwidth and latency. Download here.
SiSoft Sandra
The SiSoft Sandra memory benchmark is based on STREAM. STREAM is a popular memory bandwidth benchmark that has been used on personal computers to super computers. It measures sustained memory bandwidth not burst or peak. Therefore, the results may be lower than those of other benchmarks. Download a free trial version of SiSoft Sandra here.
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the 6700 and 6600 aren’t on the bioshock chart.
the memory controller has been moved off the skylake cpu’s, so in return you have a much cooler cpu with slightly faster performance than haswell,i was surprised that 1.4v was safe for daily use.i am using the 6600k only because the 6700k i can’t get my hands on yet.
I find that for new gaming builds, Haswell is still the way to go to save money. However, we still haven’t seen the locked processors, so who knows how that will pan out?