Intel Core i7-10700 vs Intel Core i7-1260P

Core i7-10700 vs Core i7-1260P specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10700 beats the Core i7-1260P in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-1260P 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 i7-10700 has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-10700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1260P. Also, the Core i7-10700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260P outputs less heat than Core i7-10700 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i7-1260P has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-10700. The Core i7-1260P also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i7-10700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.