AMD Ryzen 3 5300U vs Intel Core i7-1260U

Ryzen 3 5300U vs Core i7-1260U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 3 5300U performs better than the Core i7-1260U. Despite this, the Core i7-1260U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1260U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 5300U. Indeed, the Core i7-1260U has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 5300U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 5300U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 5300U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1260U. Despite this, the Core i7-1260U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260U outputs less heat than Ryzen 3 5300U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-1260U has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 5300U. The Core i7-1260U 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 Ryzen 3 5300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.