Intel Core i5-11260H vs Intel Core i7-1260P

Core i5-11260H vs Core i7-1260P benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-1260P performs better than the Core i5-11260H. Despite this, the Core i5-11260H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1260P has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-11260H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11260H. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11260H 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 i5-11260H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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