AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Intel Core i7-1260P

Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Core i7-1260P comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5980HX is faster than the Core i7-1260P. Despite this, the Core i7-1260P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 9 5980HX that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1260P. Also, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260P outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5980HX thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i7-1260P also has slightly 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 9 5980HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.