AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs Intel Core i7-1260P

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 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

4180 points
4429 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5656 points
6220 points
9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3723 points
3928 points
5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3608 points
3833 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.46 points
114.47 points
13% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

9345 points
12150 points
30% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
12
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
9% slightly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
4.7 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
86% significantly lower TDP
28 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
960 KiB
150% 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

422nd of 1,089
398th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Core i7-1260P specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-1260P performs better than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600U 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 5600U that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1260P. Despite this, the Core i7-1260P has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600U 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 5600U. The Core i7-1260P also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 Ryzen 5 5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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