Intel Core i7-8086K vs Intel Core i5-11260H

Core i7-8086K vs Core i5-11260H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11260H beats the Core i7-8086K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8086K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8086K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11260H. Also, the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-11260H outputs less heat than Core i7-8086K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-8086K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.