Intel Core i5-8265U vs Intel Core i7-2600

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-2600

Price

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$ 1924.93

$ 226.37

$ 1698.56 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2174 points

2539 points

16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3802 points

3984 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1707 points

2108 points

23% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1627 points

2031 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.15 points

38.63 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2272 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2047 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

720 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

608 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.6 GHz

3.4 GHz

112% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

688th of 1,089

619th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 August

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8265U vs Core i7-2600 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-2600 beats the Core i5-8265U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-8265U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-2600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8265U. Despite this, the Core i5-8265U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8265U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-2600 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-8265U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.