Intel Core i7-1260P vs Intel Core i5-13500

Core i7-1260P vs Core i5-13500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500 beats the Core i7-1260P in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1260P in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13500 has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i7-1260P has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-1260P. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-13500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1260P. Also, the Core i5-13500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i5-13500 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 i7-1260P has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.