AMD Ryzen 7 260 vs Intel Core i5 12600H
We compared two laptop CPUs: AMD Ryzen 7 260 with 8 cores 3.8GHz and Intel Core i5 12600H with 12 cores 2.7GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.
Main Differences
AMD Ryzen 7 260 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
Better graphics card performance
Higher specification of memory (7500 vs 5200)
Larger memory bandwidth (120GB/s vs 76.8GB/s)
Higher base frequency (3.8GHz vs 2.7GHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 10nm)
Intel Core i5 12600H 's Advantages
Larger L3 cache size (18MB vs 16MB)
Lower TDP (45W vs 54W)
Score
Benchmark
Geekbench 6 Single Core
AMD Ryzen 7 260
+2%
2344
Intel Core i5 12600H
2280
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
AMD Ryzen 7 260
9976
Intel Core i5 12600H
9908
General Parameters
Jan 2025
Release Date
Jan 2022
Amd
Manufacturer
Intel
Laptop
Type
Laptop
x86-64
Instruction Set
x86-64
Zen 4 (Hawk Point)
Core Architecture
Alder Lake-H
-
Processor Number
i5-12600H
FP8
Socket
BGA-1744
Radeon 780M
Integrated Graphics
Iris Xe Graphics (80EU)
Package
25 billions
Transistor Count
-
4 nm
Manufacturing Process
10 nm
35-54 W
Power Consumption
35-45 W
100 °C
Peak Operating Temperature
100 °C
178 mm²
Die Size
-
CPU Performance
8
Performance Cores
4
16
Performance Core Threads
-
3.8 GHz
Performance Core Base Frequency
2.7 GHz
5.1 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
4.5 GHz
-
Efficiency Cores
8
8
Total Core Count
12
16
Total Thread Count
16
100 MHz
Bus Frequency
100 MHz
38
Multiplier
27x
80 K per core
L1 Cache
80 K per core
1 MB per core
L2 Cache
1280 K per core
16 MB shared
L3 Cache
18 MB shared
No
Unlocked Multiplier
No
Memory Parameters
LPDDR5X-7500,DDR5-5600
Memory Types
DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200, LPDDR5-5200, LPDDR4x-4267
256 GB
Max Memory Size
64 GB
2
Max Memory Channels
2
120 GB/s
Max Memory Bandwidth
76.8 GB/s
No
ECC Memory Support
-
Graphics Card Parameters
true
Integrated Graphics
true
800 MHz
GPU Base Frequency
300 MHz
2700 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency
1400 MHz
768
Shader Units
640
48
Texture Units
40
32
Raster Operation Units
20
12
Execution Units
80
15
Power Consumption
15 W
4.15 TFLOPS
Graphics Performance
1.41 TFLOPS
AI Accelerator
AMD Radeon™ 780M
NPU
-
16 TOPS
Theoretical performance
-
