Intel Core i7-10870H vs Intel Core i7-1260P

Core i7-10870H vs Core i7-1260P benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10870H 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 i7-10870H has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-10870H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1260P. Also, the Core i7-10870H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260P outputs less heat than Core i7-10870H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-1260P has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10870H. The Core i7-1260P also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-10870H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.