Intel Core i7-2600 vs Intel Core i7-4910MQ

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 226.37
$ 123.51 significantly less expensive
$ 349.88

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2539 points
27% slightly better overall score
1998 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3984 points
22% slightly better gaming score
3258 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2108 points
29% slightly better multitasking score
1623 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2031 points
30% slightly better heavy workload score
1556 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.63 points
51.36 points
32% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2047 points
2980 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

608 points
887 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2040 points
3398 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

610 points
1126 points
84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
17% slightly higher clock speed
2.90 GHz

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
47 W
102% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
717th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February
2014 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i7-2600 vs Core i7-4910MQ comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-2600 beats the Core i7-4910MQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4910MQ 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 i7-4910MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4910MQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4910MQ 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.

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.

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