Intel Core i9-10885H vs Intel Core i7-1260U

Core i9-10885H vs Core i7-1260U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10885H beats the Core i7-1260U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-1260U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1260U has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i9-10885H has 8 cores. Despite this, the Core i9-10885H has more threads than the Core i7-1260U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-10885H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1260U. Also, the Core i9-10885H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260U outputs less heat than Core i9-10885H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i9-10885H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.