Intel Core i7-1260P vs AMD Ryzen 7 7730U

Core i7-1260P vs Ryzen 7 7730U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1260P beats the Ryzen 7 7730U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7730U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-1260P has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 7730U that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-1260P has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 7730U. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. 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 i7-1260P has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.