Intel Core i7-14650HX vs AMD Ryzen 7 260

Core i7-14650HX vs Ryzen 7 260 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14650HX 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 i7-14650HX has significantly more cores with 16 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 i7-14650HX. Despite this, the Core i7-14650HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-14650HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 260. The Core i7-14650HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-14650HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.