Intel Core i5-10500H vs Intel Core i7-1260P

Core i5-10500H vs Core i7-1260P comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-1260P is faster than the Core i5-10500H. Despite this, the Core i5-10500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1260P has significantly more cores than the Core i5-10500H. Indeed, the Core i7-1260P has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-10500H. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10500H. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-10500H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1260P. Despite this, the Core i7-1260P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260P outputs less heat than Core i5-10500H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-10500H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.