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Intel Core i7-2600 vs Intel Core i7-4701EQ

Last updated: 2026-07-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 84 %

Intel Core i7-2600

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-4701EQ

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 90 %

Intel Core i7-2600

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-4701EQ

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

659

4C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

1,004

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

2,169

4C / 8T · 3.00 GHz

3,410

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

772

4C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

744

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

2,874

4C / 8T · 3.00 GHz

2,698

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 2000

130

Intel HD Graphics 4600

320

More benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-2600	Intel Core i7-4701EQ
Family	Intel Core i7 (300)	Intel Core i7 (300)
CPU group	Intel Core i 2000 (28)	Intel Core i 4000 (64)
Architecture	Sandy Bridge S	Haswell S
Technology	32 nm	22 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	LGA 1155	BGA 1364
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-2600	Intel Core i7-4701EQ
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 8	4 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✓
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	4x
Frequency:	3.40 GHz	2.40 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	3.80 GHz	3.40 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):		3.00 GHz
L2-Cache	1.00 MB
L3-Cache	8.00 MB	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-2600	Intel Core i7-4701EQ
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 2000	Intel HD Graphics 4600
GPU frequency	0.85 - 1.35 GHz	0.40 - 1.00 GHz
CUs / Shader	6 / 48	20 / 160
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	2 GB
Technology	32 nm	22 nm
Release date	Q1/2011	Q2/2013

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-2600	Intel Core i7-4701EQ
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-2600	Intel Core i7-4701EQ
Memory	DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s) DDR3-1066 (17.1 GB/s)	DDR3L-1600 (25.6 GB/s) DDR3L-1333 (21.3 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	2.0 x 16	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	8.0 GB/s	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-2600	Intel Core i7-4701EQ
TDP	95 W	47 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-2600	Intel Core i7-4701EQ
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q1/2011	Q2/2013
Release price	270 $
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i7-2600 is 4.3 stars (50 ratings), while Intel Core i7-4701EQ has received 5.0 stars (1 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i7-2600
4C / 8T · 3.40 - 3.80 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i7-4701EQ
4C / 8T · 2.40 - 3.40 GHz

★★★★★