Intel Core i9-11980HK vs Intel Core i7-1260P

Core i9-11980HK vs Core i7-1260P benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-11980HK is faster than the Core i7-1260P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1260P in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1260P has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i9-11980HK has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-11980HK has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1260P. Also, the Core i9-11980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260P outputs less heat than Core i9-11980HK 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 i9-11980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.