AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i7-1260P

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i7-1260P benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1260P beats the Ryzen 5 5500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1260P has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500U. Indeed, the Core i7-1260P has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500U. Both the Ryzen 5 5500U and Core i7-1260P have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-1260P has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-1260P CPU because of its 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 i7-1260P has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500U. The Core i7-1260P 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 5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.