Intel Core i7-1270P 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

5276 points
9% slightly better overall score
4837 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7506 points
8% slightly better gaming score
6909 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4632 points
9% slightly better multitasking score
4216 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4500 points
10% slightly better heavy workload score
4083 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

115.33 points
11% slightly higher Blender score
103.14 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11010 points
43% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
7667 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
100% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz
2.30 GHz
4% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
20% 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

2
Identical
2

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

9 MiB
200% significantly 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

313th 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

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-1270P vs Ryzen 5 5560U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1270P beats the Ryzen 5 5560U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5560U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1270P has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5560U. Indeed, the Core i7-1270P has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5560U. 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 i7-1270P. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-1270P has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5560U. The Core i7-1270P also has significantly 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 i7-1270P has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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