Intel Core i7-3770 vs Intel Core i7-2600K

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Intel Core i7-2600K

Price

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$ 174.85

$ 84.99

$ 89.86 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2575 points

0.16% slightly better overall score

2571 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4118 points

1% slightly better gaming score

4067 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2119 points

2123 points

0.19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2036 points

2039 points

0.15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

1985 points

3342 points

68% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.88 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

44.04 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2294 points

0.09% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2292 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

672 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

665 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2315 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2289 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

673 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

665 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

3.40 GHz

0.03% slightly higher clock speed

3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W

23% slightly lower TDP

95 W

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

611th of 1,089

612th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-3770 vs Core i7-2600K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3770 is faster than the Core i7-2600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2600K in all gaming tests too.

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 i7-3770 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2600K. Also, the Core i7-3770 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3770 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-2600K CPU because of its slightly 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 i7-3770 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.