Intel Core i7-2600 vs Intel Core i7-4710HQ

Core i7-2600 vs Core i7-4710HQ benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-2600 beats the Core i7-4710HQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4710HQ in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-2600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4710HQ. Also, the Core i7-2600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4710HQ 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.

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.