Intel Core i5-11260H vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series 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

4640 points

0.89% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6626 points

9% slightly better gaming score

6078 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3989 points

4227 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3862 points

4149 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

110.00 points

119.67 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

8990 points

9111 points

1% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5841 points

6258 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1703 points

0.53% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1694 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6055 points

6151 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1732 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1677 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

36% slightly higher clock speed

1.90 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

Identical

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

15 W

200% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB

12% slightly more L1 cache

512 KiB

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

376th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5

Ryzen PRO 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-11260H vs Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U is faster 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 Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11260H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11260H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11260H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U 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.

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.