Intel Core i7-920 vs Intel Core i7-2600

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Intel Core i7-2600

Price

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$ 99.95

$ 126.42 significantly less expensive

$ 226.37

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1474 points

2539 points

72% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2489 points

3984 points

60% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1179 points

2108 points

78% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1132 points

2031 points

79% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

31.28 points

38.63 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

2047 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

419 points

608 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1431 points

2040 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

415 points

610 points

46% 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

2.79 GHz

3.4 GHz

21% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.93 GHz

3.8 GHz

29% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

24 GiB

32 GiB

33% slightly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

814th of 1,089

619th of 1,089

Family

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Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 November

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-920 vs Core i7-2600 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-2600 is faster than the Core i7-920. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-920 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-2600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-920. Also, the Core i7-2600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-2600 outputs less heat than Core i7-920 thanks to a slightly 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 i7-920 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.