Intel Core i7-2600 Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2024-04-16

The Intel Core i7-2600 was released in Q1/2011 and has 4 cores. The processor can process 8 threads simultaneously and uses a mainboard with the socket LGA 1155. In the Geekbench 5 benchmark, the Intel Core i7-2600 achieved a result of 772 points (single-core) or 2,874 points (multi-core).

CPU lineage
In this classification you can see to which group of processors the Intel Core i7-2600 belongs. We also show the direct predecessor and successor of Intel Core i7-2600.
Name:	Intel Core i7-2600
Family:	Intel Core i7 (298)
CPU group:	Intel Core i 2000 (28)
Architecture:	Sandy Bridge S
Segment:	Desktop / Server
Generation:	2
Predecessor:	--
Successor:	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i7-2600 has 4 cores. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i7-2600 is 3.40 GHz (3.80 GHz). An initial performance assessment can be made using the number of CPU cores.

CPU Cores / Threads:	4 / 8
Core architecture:	normal
Cores:	4x

Hyperthreading / SMT:	Yes
Overclocking:	No
Frequency:	3.40 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	3.80 GHz
Turbo Frequency (4 Cores):	--

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

AI hardware:	--
AI specifications:	--

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i7-2600 has an integrated graphics that the system can use to efficiently play back videos. The Intel Core i7-2600 has the Intel HD Graphics 2000 installed, which has 6 streaming multiprocessors (48 shaders).

GPU name:	Intel HD Graphics 2000
GPU frequency:	0.85 GHz
GPU (Turbo):	1.35 GHz
Compute units:	6
Shader:	48
Hardware Raytracing:	No
Release date:	Q1/2011

Max. displays:	2
Generation:	6
Direct X:	10.1
Technology:	32 nm
Max. GPU Memory:	2 GB
Frame Generation:	No

Hardware codec support

Processors with integrated graphics can process video codecs faster. Support for modern codecs can significantly increase system efficiency during video playback.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit):	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit):	No
h264:	Decode / Encode
VP8:	No
VP9:	No

AV1:	No
AVC:	Decode / Encode
VC-1:	Decode
JPEG:	No

Memory type:	Memory bandwidth:
Memory & PCIe The Intel Core i7-2600 supports a maximum of 32 GB memory. Depending on the mainboard, the processor can use a maximum of 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. This results in a maximum bandwidth of the main memory of 21.3 GB/s.

DDR3-1066 DDR3-1333	17.1 GB/s 21.3 GB/s
Max. Memory:	32 GB
Memory channels:	2 (Dual Channel)
ECC:	No
PCIe:	2.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth:	8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management The Intel Core i7-2600 has a TDP of 95 W. Based on the TDP, the system manufacturer can and must adapt the cooling solution to the processor.

TDP (PL1 / PBP):	95 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	--
TDP down:	--
Tjunction max.:	--

Technical details

Modern production reduces the waste heat of a processor and increases its efficiency. The Intel Core i7-2600 is made in 32 nm and has 9.00 MB cache.

Technology:	32 nm
Chip design:	Monolithic
Socket:	LGA 1155
L2-Cache:	1.00 MB
L3-Cache:	8.00 MB
AES-NI:	Yes
Operating systems:	Windows 10, Linux

Virtualization:	VT-x, VT-x EPT
Instruction set (ISA):	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions:	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Release date:	Q1/2011
Release price:	270 $
Part Number:	--
Documents:	--

Intel Core i7-2600
4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz (3.80 GHz)

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the Intel Core i7-2600 have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i5-6300U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	777
	Intel Core i7-4770HQ 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	767
	Intel Core i3-10100Y 2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz	764
	Intel Core i7-2600 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	759
	Intel Core i5-3570K 4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	731
	Intel Core i5-3570 4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	731
	Intel Core i5-4200M 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	730

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core i5-4670 4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	3389
	Intel Core i5-7400 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	3359
	Intel Core i7-3635QM 4C 8T @ 2.40 GHz	3301
	Intel Core i7-2600 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	3289
	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	3286
	Intel Core i7-10510U 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	3271
	Intel Core i7-10610U 4C 8T @ 1.80 GHz	3267

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i5-4440S 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	774
	AMD Ryzen 3 3350U 4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	773
	Intel Core m3-7Y32 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	773
	Intel Core i7-2600 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	772
	Intel Core i5-3475S 4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	772
	Intel Core i7-3820 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	772
	Intel Core i7-4820K 4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz	772

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core i5-7440HQ 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	2896
	Intel Core i7-2700K 4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz	2894
	Intel Core i7-4722HQ 4C 8T @ 2.40 GHz	2885
	Intel Core i7-2600 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	2874
	Intel Core i7-8665UE 4C 8T @ 1.70 GHz	2874
	Intel Core i5-8365U 4C 8T @ 2.60 GHz	2866
	Intel Core i5-3570K 4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	2866

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	Intel Core i5-3350P 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	662
	MediaTek Helio G95 8C 8T @ 2.05 GHz	662
	Intel Core i7-990X 6C 12T @ 3.73 GHz	660
	Intel Core i7-2600 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	659
	Intel Pentium Gold G5400T 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	658
	Intel Core i5-3570T 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	657
	Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3 6C 6T @ 1.90 GHz	653

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	Intel Core i3-4330 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	2179
	Intel Core i3-6100T 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	2176
	Intel Core i7-965 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	2174
	Intel Core i7-2600 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	2169
	AMD Athlon 3000G 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	2169
	Intel Core i3-8130U 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	2168
	Intel Core i7-3615QE 4C 8T @ 2.30 GHz	2162

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.


	Intel Celeron N3150 Intel HD Graphics 400 @ 0.64 GHz	134
	Intel Celeron N3160 Intel HD Graphics 400 @ 0.64 GHz	134
	Intel Core i7-2600S Intel HD Graphics 2000 @ 1.35 GHz	130
	Intel Core i7-2600 Intel HD Graphics 2000 @ 1.35 GHz	130
	Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 Qualcomm Adreno 420 @ 0.50 GHz	128
	AMD E2-6110 AMD Radeon R2 (Beema) @ 0.50 GHz	128
	AMD GX-415GA AMD Radeon HD 8330 @ 0.50 GHz	127

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	Intel Core i7-4700MQ 4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	5350
	Intel Core i7-4701EQ 4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	5350
	Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3 4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	5341
	Intel Core i7-2600 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	5332
	Intel Core i7-8665UE 4C 8T @ 1.70 GHz	5324
	Intel Core i7-4712HQ 4C 8T @ 2.30 GHz	5321
	Intel Core i3-8100T 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	5315

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	Intel Core i3-4170 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	342
	Intel Core i5-2500 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	340
	Intel Pentium G4560 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	339
	Intel Core i7-2600 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	337
	Intel Core i3-4160 2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	331
	AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	329
	Intel Core i7-7500U 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	325

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	Intel Core i7-8550U 4C 8T @ 1.80 GHz	1666
	Intel Core i5-1035G7 4C 8T @ 1.20 GHz	1665
	AMD Ryzen 3 3200G 4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	1662
	Intel Core i7-2600 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	1658
	AMD Ryzen 5 3500U 4C 8T @ 2.10 GHz	1647
	Intel Core i7-3820QM 4C 8T @ 2.70 GHz	1644
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U 4C 8T @ 2.10 GHz	1636

Benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
586 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
565 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,488 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,461 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,755 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,703 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,039 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,392 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
231 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
733 entries

Description of the processor

The Intel Core i7-2600 is a 4-core CPU based on Intels "Sandy Bridge" CPU architecture. The "Sandy Bridge" CPU architecture has been completely redeveloped by Intel and is now significantly more powerful.

Although the Intel Core i7-2600 has 4 CPU cores, it can process up to 8 threads in parallel. This is made possible by Intels Hyper-Threading technology, which enables 2 threads per physically present CPU core. AMD offers an identical function in its processors with Simultaneous Multi-Threading technology.

The Intel Core i7-2600 is not overclockable, but there are K models from Intel that have a free multiplier and can therefore be overclocked very easily. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i7-2600 is 3.4 GHz. This can increase the CPU to up to 3.8 GHz via the so-called turbo mode. To do this, the CPU must be in a certain range for CPU temperature and power consumption.

The Intel Core i7-2600 has Intel HD Graphics 2000 as integrated graphics. This has 6 execution units and 48 texture shaders. This graphics is usually too weak for computer games.

The maximum memory bandwidth is 21.3 GB/s using DDR3-1333 memory in dual-channel mode. In dual-channel mode, at least two memory modules must be installed in the system. If only one module is installed, the maximum possible memory bandwidth is halved. A maximum of 32 GB of RAM can be connected to an Intel Core i7-2600 system.

The Intel Core i7-2600 supports the PCIe 2.0 standard with 16 PCIe lines. The maximum PCIe bandwidth is 8 GB/s. External components such as a dedicated graphics card are connected to the processor via PCIe.

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the Intel Core i7-2600 is 95 watts.

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