Intel Core i5-11260H vs Intel Core i7-11600H

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i7 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4599 points

5170 points

12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6626 points

7209 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3989 points

4538 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3862 points

4400 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

110.00 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

107.90 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6055 points

6559 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1732 points

1926 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

2.92 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

4.6 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

18 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

381st of 1,089

329th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5

11th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2021 August

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-11260H vs Core i7-11600H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11600H beats the Core i5-11260H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11260H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-11600H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11260H. Also, the Core i7-11600H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i5-11260H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.