Intel Core i7-2600 vs Intel Core i3-1315U

Core i7-2600 vs Core i3-1315U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-1315U beats the Core i7-2600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-1315U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-2600 has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-2600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1315U. Despite this, the Core i3-1315U has a slightly higher turbo speed.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.