AMD Ryzen 7 4800H vs Intel Core i5-11260H

Ryzen 7 4800H vs Core i5-11260H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 4800H beats the Core i5-11260H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11260H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 4800H has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-11260H that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11260H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 4800H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-11260H. Despite this, the Core i5-11260H has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 7 4800H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.