Intel Core i5-10300H vs Intel Core i7-1260U

Core i5-10300H vs Core i7-1260U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-10300H performs better than the Core i7-1260U. Despite this, the Core i7-1260U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1260U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-10300H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10300H. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-10300H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1260U. Despite this, the Core i7-1260U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260U outputs less heat than Core i5-10300H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-1260U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10300H. The Core i7-1260U also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-10300H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.