Intel Core i7 2600S review

Lower-power, but with the same eight-threaded processing goodness

Intel Core i7-2600S
The Intel Core i7-2600S offers cheap workstation power

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Benchmarks:

As with the Intel Core i5 2500T, we ran the CPU graphics at the stock speed of the core and again at 1.3GHz.

The 1.3GHz speed was chosen because it's the fastest we could the Core i3-2100 to run, and it makes a good platform to get like for like benchmark figures before we started to overclock the graphics on the Core i7 2600S.

CPU rendering performance

Intel core i7 2600s benchmarks

CPU video encoding performance

Intel core i7 2600s benchmarks

1080p CPU gaming performance

Intel core i7 2600s benchmarks