Intel Core i7-1260P vs Intel Core i5-1245U

Core i7-1260P vs Core i5-1245U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-1260P is faster than the Core i5-1245U. Despite this, the Core i5-1245U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1260P has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-1245U has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-1245U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-1260P has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1245U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-1245U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-1260P. Despite this, the Core i7-1260P has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-1245U.

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 i7-1260P has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.