Intel Core i7-2600 vs Intel Core i7-2600K

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Intel Core i7-2600K

Price

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$ 226.37

$ 84.99

$ 141.38 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2539 points

2571 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3984 points

4067 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2108 points

2123 points

0.71% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2031 points

2039 points

0.39% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3013 points

3342 points

10% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.63 points

44.04 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2047 points

2292 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

608 points

665 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2040 points

2289 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

610 points

665 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

Identical

3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

Identical

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

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

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

619th of 1,089

612th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-2600 vs Core i7-2600K benchmarks

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

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Both the Core i7-2600 and Core i7-2600K have the same clock speed. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.