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Intel Core i7-9700 vs Intel Core i7-2600

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-9700

Rank 2 - 59 %

Intel Core i7-2600

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-9700

Rank 2 - 39 %

Intel Core i7-2600

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.70 GHz

1,181 pts

4C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

759 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

8,540 pts

4C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

3,289 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.70 GHz

1,570

4C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

659

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

7,202

4C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

2,169

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

8C / 8T · 4.70 GHz

1,218

4C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

772

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

8C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

6,714

4C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

2,874

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel UHD Graphics 630

461

Intel HD Graphics 2000

130

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.70 GHz

524

4C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

337

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.00 GHz

3,725

4C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

1,658

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Monero Hashrate
94 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700	Intel Core i7-2600
Family	Intel Core i7 (300)	Intel Core i7 (300)
CPU group	Intel Core i 9000 (34)	Intel Core i 2000 (28)
Architecture	Coffee Lake S Refresh	Sandy Bridge S
Technology	14 nm	32 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	LGA 1151-2	LGA 1155
Predecessor	Intel Core i7-8700
Successor	Intel Core i7-10700

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700	Intel Core i7-2600
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	4 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	8x	4x
Frequency:	3.00 GHz	3.40 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	4.70 GHz	3.80 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	3.80 GHz
L2-Cache		1.00 MB
L3-Cache	12.00 MB	8.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700	Intel Core i7-2600
GPU name	Intel UHD Graphics 630	Intel HD Graphics 2000
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.20 GHz	0.85 - 1.35 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	6 / 48
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	2
Max. GPU Memory	64 GB	2 GB
Technology	14 nm	32 nm
Release date	Q4/2017	Q1/2011

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700	Intel Core i7-2600
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700	Intel Core i7-2600
Memory	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)	DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s) DDR3-1066 (17.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16	2.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s	8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700	Intel Core i7-2600
TDP	65 W	95 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700	Intel Core i7-2600
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Release date	Q2/2019	Q1/2011
Release price	335 $	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 i7-9700 is 3.8 stars (65 ratings), while Intel Core i7-2600 has received 4.3 stars (48 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i7-9700
8C / 8T · 3.00 - 4.70 GHz

★★★★★

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

★★★★★