Processor Intel Core i7-2600, specifications and benchmarks

• CPU group
  Intel Core i 2000
• Family
  Intel Core i7
• Generation
  2
• Name
  Intel Core i7-2600
• Predecessor
  —
• Segment
  Desktop / Server
• Successor
  —

• A-Core
  —
• B-Core
  —
• Base Frequency
  3.4 GHz
• C-Core
  —
• Core architecture
  normal
• CPU Cores
  4
• CPU Threads
  8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes
• Overclocking
  No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.8 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  No turbo

• DirectX Version
  10.1
• Execution units
  6
• Generation
  6
• GPU Frequency
  850 MHz
• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics 2000
• GPU Turbo
  1350 MHz
• Max. displays
  2
• Max. GPU Memory
  —
• Release date
  Q1/2011
• Shader
  48
• Technology
  32 nm

• AV1
  No
• H.264 / AVC
  Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No
• JPEG
  No
• VC-1
  Decode
• VP8
  No
• VP9
  No

• ECC
  No
• Max. Memory
  32 GB
• Memory channels
  2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1066DDR3-1333
• PCIe lanes
  16
• PCIe version
  2.0

• AES-NI
  Yes

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  —
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  95 W
• TDP (PL2)
  —
• TDP down
  —
• TDP up
  —

• Architecture
  Sandy Bridge S
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L2-Cache
  —
• L3-Cache
  8.00 MB
• Part Number
  —
• Release date
  Q1/2011
• Socket
  LGA 1155
• Technology
  32 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT

Common positions Intel Core i7-2600 CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

• Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
  308 place
• Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
  261 place
• Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
  679 place
• Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
  607 place
• iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
  1428 place