Intel Core i5-10600 vs Intel Core i7-1260P

Core i5-10600 vs Core i7-1260P benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10600 is faster than the Core i7-1260P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1260P in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1260P has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-10600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-10600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1260P. Also, the Core i5-10600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260P outputs less heat than Core i5-10600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i7-1260P has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10600. The Core i7-1260P also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-10600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.