Intel Core i7-2600 vs Intel Core i7-3740QM

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Intel Core i7-3740QM

Price

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$ 226.37

$ 2025.63 significantly less expensive

$ 2252.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2539 points

1% slightly better overall score

2493 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3984 points

0.68% slightly better gaming score

3957 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2108 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

2061 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2031 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

1979 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.63 points

43.44 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2047 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2018 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

608 points

611 points

0.49% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2040 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1995 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

610 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

599 points

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

25% slightly higher clock speed

2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

45 W

111% significantly lower TDP

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

629th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-2600 vs Core i7-3740QM comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-2600 is faster than the Core i7-3740QM. Despite this, the Core i7-3740QM has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-2600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3740QM. Also, the Core i7-2600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3740QM outputs less heat than Core i7-2600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.