2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-2600 Processor

The Intel® Core™ i7 processor delivers best-in-class performance for the most demanding applications. 

This quad-core processor features 8-way multitasking capability and additional L3 cache. 

With adaptive performance and built-in visual capabilities this 2nd generation processor brings more intelligence to your PC.

 

Features and Benefits 

With 2nd generation Intel Core i7 processors, you get the following features built in:

• Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 dynamically increases the processor frequency as needed by taking advantage of thermal and power headroom when operating below specified limits.
• Intel® HT Technology allows each core of your processor to work on two tasks at the same time.
• Intel® Smart Cache is dynamically allocated to each processor core based on workload, which significantly reduces latency and improves performance.
• Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions add hardware acceleration to AES algorithms and speeds up the execution of AES applications.

Processor  Number	Cache	Clock Speed	# of Cores/ Threads	Intel® Turbo  Boost Technology	Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)	Intel® 64	Intel® Trusted Execution Technology	Intel® HD Graphics
i7-2600	8.0 MB	3.40 GHz	4/8	2.0	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

 

A comparison:

Processor  Number	Cache	Clock  Speed	# of  Cores/  Threads	Intel®  Turbo  Boost  Technology	Intel®  Virtualization Technology  (VT-x)	Intel® 64	Intel® Trusted Execution Technology	Intel® HD Graphics
i3-2120	3.0 MB	3.30 GHz	2 / 4	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
i3-2100	3.0 MB	3.10 GHz	2 / 4	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes