Intel Core i7-2600K vs Intel Core i5-6402P

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-6402P

Price

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$ 84.99

$ 33.67 significantly less expensive

$ 118.66

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2571 points

15% slightly better overall score

2224 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4067 points

4145 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2123 points

25% slightly better multitasking score

1690 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2039 points

25% slightly better heavy workload score

1619 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.04 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

36.61 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2292 points

3058 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

665 points

1081 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2289 points

3073 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

665 points

1134 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

21% slightly higher clock speed

2.81 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% 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

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

612th of 1,089

677th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2015 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-1866

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-2600K vs Core i5-6402P comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-2600K is faster than the Core i5-6402P. Despite this, the Core i5-6402P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-2600K has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-2600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6402P. Also, the Core i7-2600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-6402P outputs less heat than Core i7-2600K 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 i7-2600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.