Intel Core i7-8700 vs Intel Core i7-1260P

Core i7-8700 vs Core i7-1260P benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1260P beats the Core i7-8700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1260P has significantly more cores than the Core i7-8700. Indeed, the Core i7-1260P has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-8700. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1260P. Despite this, the Core i7-1260P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260P outputs less heat than Core i7-8700 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-1260P has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700. The Core i7-1260P 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 i7-8700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.