Intel Core i5-11260H vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD 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
4985 points
8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6626 points
1% slightly better gaming score
6530 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3989 points
4496 points
12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3862 points
4354 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

110.00 points
25% slightly higher Blender score
87.35 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
18% slightly higher clock speed
2.20 GHz

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
350th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-11260H vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11260H is faster than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11260H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.

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.

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