Intel Core i5-11260H vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD 8 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
5427 points
18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6626 points
7307 points
10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3989 points
4865 points
21% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3862 points
4745 points
22% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

110.00 points
159.68 points
45% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
3.20 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
16 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

381st of 1,089
300th 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 7 6800HS Creator Edition comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition performs better than the Core i5-11260H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11260H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition has slightly more cores than the Core i5-11260H. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11260H. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11260H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-11260H.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-11260H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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