AMD Athlon Gold 20 vs Intel Core i7 6850K
CPU · Specs Compare
General Parameters
Release Date
Oct 2025
May 2016
Manufacturer
AMD
Intel
Type
Laptop
Desktop
Core Architecture
Mendocino
Broadwell E
Integrated Graphics
Radeon 610M
N/A
Generation
Athlon (Zen 2 (Mendocino))
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Instruction Set
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x86-64
Processor Number
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i7-6850K
Package
Manufacturing Process
6 nm
14 nm
Socket
AMD Socket FT6
LGA-2011-3
Power Consumption
15 W
140 W
Peak Operating Temperature
95°C
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Foundry
TSMC
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Die Size
100 mm²
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Package
FT6
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CPU Performance
Performance Core Base Frequency
2.4 GHz
3.6 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
3.7 GHz
3.8 GHz
Total Core Count
2
6
Total Thread Count
4
12
Bus Frequency
100 MHz
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Multiplier
24.0
36x
L1 Cache
64 KB per core
32 K per core
L2 Cache
512 KB per core
256 K per core
L3 Cache
4 MB shared
15 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier
No
No
SMP
1
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Performance Cores
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6
Performance Core Threads
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12
Memory Parameters
Memory Types
LPDDR5-5500
DDR4-2133
Max Memory Channels
2
4
ECC Memory Support
No
No
Max Memory Size
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128 GB
Max Memory Bandwidth
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76.8 GB/s
Miscellaneous
PCIe Version
3
3.0
PCIe Lanes
4
40
Benchmark
Geekbench 6
888
986
Geekbench 6
1,822
3,877
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.