Intel Core i7-1260U vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Core i7-1260U vs Core i7 X 990 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7 X 990 performs better than the Core i7-1260U. Despite this, the Core i7-1260U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-1260U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i7 X 990 that has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7 X 990 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1260U. The info from our database shows that the Core i7 X 990 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-1260U

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