Intel Core i7-2600 vs Intel Core i7-13790F

Core i7-2600 vs Core i7-13790F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13790F 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-13790F has significantly more cores than the Core i7-2600. Indeed, the Core i7-13790F has 16 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-2600. It also has more threads than the Core i7-2600. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-2600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13790F.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.