AMD Ryzen 7 2700 vs Intel Core i5-11260H

Ryzen 7 2700 vs Core i5-11260H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 2700 beats the Core i5-11260H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11260H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 2700 has slightly more cores than the Core i5-11260H. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 2700 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11260H. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11260H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 2700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-11260H. Despite this, the Core i5-11260H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-11260H outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 2700 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 7 2700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.