Intel Core i7-1260P vs AMD Ryzen 5 5560U

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4429 points

4837 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6220 points

6909 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3928 points

4216 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3833 points

4083 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

114.47 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

103.14 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

12150 points

58% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

7667 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

2.30 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

28 W

15 W

86% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

960 KiB

150% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB

125% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

398th of 1,089

361st of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-1260P vs Ryzen 5 5560U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-1260P is faster than the Ryzen 5 5560U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5560U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1260P has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5560U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5560U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5560U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1260P. In terms of cache, the Core i7-1260P has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5560U. The Core i7-1260P also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.