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Intel Core i7-4600M: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

Intel started Intel Core i7-4600M sales 1 September 2013 at a recommended price of $346. This is Haswell architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 22 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3600 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCPGA946 processor with a TDP of 37 Watt and a maximum temperature of 100 °C. It supports DDR3L-1333, DDR3L-1600 memory.

It provides poor benchmark performance at 3.61 percent of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3995WX.

General info

Of Core i7-4600M processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture and sales start time and price.

Place in performance rating

1115

Value for money (0-100)

0.35

Type

Laptop

Series

Intel Core i7

Architecture codename

Haswell

Release date

1 September 2013

Launch price (MSRP)

$346

Price now

$383

of 14999 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technical specs

Core i7-4600M's quantitative parameters such as cores and threads number, clocks, manufacturing process, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of Core i7-4600M's performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Number of cores

Number of threads

Base frequency

2.9 GHz

of 4.7 (FX-9590)

Maximum frequency

3.6 GHz

of 5.3 (Core i9-10900KF)

L1 cache

64K (per core)

of 896 (Atom C3950)

L2 cache

256K (per core)

of 12288 (Core 2 Quad Q9550)

L3 cache

4 MB (shared)

of 32 (Ryzen Threadripper 1998)

Manufacturing process technology

22 nm

of 5 (Apple M1)

Die size

118 mm²

Maximum core temperature

100 °C

of 110 (Atom x7-E3950)

Maximum case temperature (TCase)

100 °C

of 105 (Core i7-5557U)

Transistor count

1,300 million

of 19200 (Ryzen 9 3800X)

64 bit support

Compatibility

Information on Core i7-4600M compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one.

Max number of CPUs in a configuration

of 8 (Opteron 842)

Socket

FCPGA946

Power consumption (TDP)

37 Watt

of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core i7-4600M. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions

Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2

AES-NI

AVX

vPro

Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)

Turbo Boost

2.0

Hyper-Threading

Thermal Monitoring

FDI

Security technologies

Core i7-4600M technologies aimed at raising security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT

EDB

Secure Key

Identity Protection

Anti-Theft

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core i7-4600M are enumerated here.

AMD-V

VT-d

VT-x

EPT

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Core i7-4600M.

Supported memory types

DDR3L-1333, DDR3L-1600

of 4266 (Ryzen 9 4900H)

Maximum memory size

32 GB

of 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3)

Max memory channels

of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)

Maximum memory bandwidth

25.6 GB/s

of 281.6 (Xeon Platinum 9221)

Graphics specifications

General parameters of GPU integrated into Core i7-4600M.

Integrated graphics

Intel HD Graphics 4600

Max video memory

2 GB

Quick Sync

Clear Video HD

Graphics max frequency

1.3 GHz

InTru 3D

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Core i7-4600M's integrated GPU.

Number of displays supported

eDP

DisplayPort

HDMI

VGA

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Core i7-4600M's integrated GPU, including resolutions over different interfaces.

Max resolution over HDMI 1.4

3840x2160@60Hz

Max resolution over DisplayPort

3840x2160@60Hz

Max resolution over VGA

2880x1800@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Core i7-4600M's integrated GPU, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX

11.2/12

OpenGL

4.3

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of Core i7-4600M's supported peripherals.

PCIe revision

Max number of PCIe lanes

of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Core i7-4600M. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

3.61

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

1.5

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

132

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

310

Passmark

3205

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of Core i7-4600M. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

2.2 Mh/s

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good Core i7-4600M is for gaming compared with game system requirements. Remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.

Relative perfomance

Overall Core i7-4600M performance compared to nearest competitors. All CPU types participate.

100 %

Core i7-4600M

Celeron Dual-Core T1400

AMD equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Core i7-4600M from AMD is Athlon Silver 3050U, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our rating.