Core i5-11260H: specs and benchmarks

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Core i5-11260H
2021
6 cores / 12 threads, 35 Watt
9.93

Core i5-11260H provides acceptable benchmark performance at 9.93% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

Intel started Core i5-11260H sales 11 May 2021. This is a Tiger Lake-H architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 6 cores and 12 threads, and is based on 10 nm SuperFin manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 4400 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCBGA1787 processor with a TDP of 35 Watt and a maximum temperature of 72 °C. It supports DDR4 memory.

Primary details

Core i5-11260H processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking781
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentLaptop
SeriesIntel Tiger Lake
Power efficiency26.85of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameTiger Lake-H (2021)
Release date11 May 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads12
Base clock speed2.6 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed4.4 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
Bus rate8 GT/s
L1 cache96K (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache1.25 MB (per core)of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache12 MB (shared)of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography10 nm SuperFinof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Maximum core temperature100 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
Maximum case temperature (TCase)72 °Cof 105 °C (Core i7-5950HQ)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+

Compatibility

Information on Core i5-11260H compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketFCBGA1787
Power consumption (TDP)35 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Core i5-11260H. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512
AES-NI+
FMA+
AVX+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Speed Shift+
Hyper-Threading Technology+
TSX+
Thermal Monitoring+
Flex Memory Access+
Deep Learning Boost+

Security technologies

Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+
Secure Key+
SGX-
OS Guard+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

VT-d+
VT-x+
EPT+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Core i5-11260H's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4
Maximum memory size128 GBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9124)
Max memory channels2of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth51.2 GB/sof 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9124)

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Core i5-11260H.

Integrated graphics cardIntel UHD Graphics for 11th Gen Intel Processors
Quick Sync Video+
Graphics max frequency1.4 GHz
Execution Units16

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Core i5-11260H's integrated GPU.

Number of displays supported4

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Core i5-11260H's integrated GPU, including resolutions over different interfaces.

Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096x2304@60Hz
Max resolution over eDP4096x2304@60Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPort7680x4320@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Core i5-11260H's integrated GPU, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12.1
OpenGL4.6

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version4.0of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K)
PCI Express lanes20of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Core i5-11260H. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

i5-11260H 9.93

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

i5-11260H 15770

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

i5-11260H 1723

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

i5-11260H 6062

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

i5-11260H 6358

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Core i5-11260H's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook CPUs.


Ryzen 5 7530U 100.91
Core i5-11260H 100

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Core i5-11260H is Ryzen 7 5700U, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 5 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Core i5-11260H:

Ryzen 5 7530U 100.91
Core i5-11260H 100

Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Core i5-11260H, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Core i5-11260H in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 9428 configurations using Core i5-11260H in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.5% (49/9428)
RTX 4070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
0.01% (1/9428)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.07% (7/9428)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.03% (3/9428)
RTX 4070 GeForce RTX 4070
0.03% (3/9428)
RTX 3090 GeForce RTX 3090
0.01% (1/9428)
RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 3080
0.01% (1/9428)
RX 6800 XT Radeon RX 6800 XT
0.01% (1/9428)

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