AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Intel Core i7-1260P

Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Core i7-1260P comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 5900HS performs better than the Core i7-1260P. Despite this, the Core i7-1260P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1260P has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 5900HS has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900HS has a much higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1260P. The Core i7-1260P outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900HS thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i7-1260P also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 9 5900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.