AMD Ryzen 5 2400G vs Intel Core i7-1260U

Ryzen 5 2400G vs Core i7-1260U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 2400G 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 5 2400G. Indeed, the Core i7-1260U has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 2400G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 2400G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 2400G 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 5 2400G 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 i7-1260U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 2400G. The Core i7-1260U also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2400G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.