Intel Core i7-2600K vs Intel Core i7-4930MX

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-4930MX

Price

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$ 84.99

$ 214.02 significantly less expensive

$ 299.01

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2571 points

4% slightly better overall score

2463 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4067 points

0.44% slightly better gaming score

4049 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2123 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

2003 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2039 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

1926 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.04 points

50.02 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2292 points

3101 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

665 points

873 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2289 points

3648 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

665 points

1251 points

88% significantly 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

6% slightly higher clock speed

3.20 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

57 W

66% 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

612th of 1,089

636th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2013 May

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 i7-2600K vs Core i7-4930MX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-2600K is faster than the Core i7-4930MX. Despite this, the Core i7-4930MX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-2600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4930MX. Despite this, the Core i7-4930MX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4930MX 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.

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 i7-2600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.