Intel Core i7-13850HX vs AMD Ryzen 7 260

Core i7-13850HX vs Ryzen 7 260 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13850HX beats the Ryzen 7 260 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 260 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-13850HX has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 260 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 260. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 260 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13850HX. Despite this, the Core i7-13850HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-13850HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 260. The Core i7-13850HX 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 i7-13850HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.