Core i9-12900H vs Ryzen 7 260 benchmarks
In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900H beats the Ryzen 7 260 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 260 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900H has significantly more cores with 14 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 i9-12900H. Also, the Ryzen 7 260 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i9-12900H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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