Intel Core i7-2600 vs Intel Core i7-2700K

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Intel Core i7-2700K

Price

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$ 226.37

$ 189.88

$ 36.49 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2539 points

2597 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3984 points

3% slightly better gaming score

3839 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2108 points

2213 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2031 points

2133 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.63 points

44.33 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2047 points

2222 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

608 points

627 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2040 points

2293 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

610 points

672 points

10% 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

3.5 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

3.9 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

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

608th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2011 November

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 i7-2700K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-2600 performs better than the Core i7-2700K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2700K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-2700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2600. Also, the Core i7-2700K has a slightly higher 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.

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.