Intel Core i5-11500 vs Intel Core i7-1260P

Core i5-11500 vs Core i7-1260P benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-1260P performs better than the Core i5-11500. Despite this, the Core i5-11500 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 i5-11500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11500. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11500 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 i5-11500 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 i5-11500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.