AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs Intel Core i7-1260P

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4361 points

4429 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5968 points

6220 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3844 points

3928 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3721 points

3833 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3464 points

4486 points

29% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.27 points

114.47 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

61% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

4.7 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

28 W

132% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB

960 KiB

66% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

4 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

18 MiB

12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

404th of 1,089

398th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Core i7-1260P comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-1260P performs better than the Ryzen 5 2600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-1260P has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 2600 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 2600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 2600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1260P. Despite this, the Core i7-1260P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260P outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 2600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i7-1260P has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 2600. The Core i7-1260P also has slightly 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 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.