Intel Core i7-2600 vs Intel Core i5-13400

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-13400

Price

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$ 226.37

$ 97.37 significantly less expensive

$ 323.74

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2539 points

8550 points

236% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3984 points

11151 points

179% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2108 points

7733 points

266% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2031 points

7540 points

271% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3013 points

7345 points

143% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.63 points

196.62 points

409% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2040 points

10023 points

391% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

610 points

2279 points

273% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

36% slightly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.6 GHz

21% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

128 GiB

300% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

619th of 1,089

123rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR5-4800

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-2600 vs Core i5-13400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13400 is faster than the Core i7-2600. 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 i5-13400 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-2600 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-2600. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-2600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13400. Despite this, the Core i5-13400 has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i7-2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.