Intel Core i5-11260H vs AMD Ryzen 5 5560U

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 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
4837 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6626 points
6909 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3989 points
4216 points
5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3862 points
4083 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

110.00 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
103.14 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

8990 points
17% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
7667 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6055 points
6293 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1732 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1663 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
12% slightly higher clock speed
2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed
4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
15 W
200% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

381st of 1,089
361st of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May
2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i5-11260H vs Ryzen 5 5560U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11260H beats the Ryzen 5 5560U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5560U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-11260H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5560U.

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.

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