Intel Core i5-11260H Benchmark, Test and specs

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The Intel Core i5-11260H has 6 cores with 12 threads and is based on the 11. gen of the Intel Core i5 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the BGA 1787 socket and was released in Q2/2021. The Intel Core i5-11260H scores 1,387 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 6,745 points.
Intel Core i5-11260H

At a glance

Name: Intel Core i5-11260H
Family: Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group: Intel Core i 11000H (17)
Architecture: Tiger Lake H
Technology: 10 nm
Segment: Notebook
Generation: 11
Predecessor: --
Successor: --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i5-11260H has 6 CPU cores and can calculate 12 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i5-11260H is 2.60 GHz (4.40 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads: 6 / 12
Core architecture: normal
Cores: 6x
Hyperthreading / SMT: Yes
Overclocking: No
Frequency: 2.60 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core): 4.40 GHz
Turbo Frequency (6 Cores): 3.60 GHz

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

The Intel Core i5-11260H has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i5-11260H uses the Intel UHD Graphics 11th Gen (16 EU), which has 128 texture shaders and 16 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name: Intel UHD Graphics 11th Gen (16 EU)
GPU frequency: 0.35 GHz
GPU (Turbo): 1.40 GHz
Compute units: 16
Shader: 128
Hardware Raytracing: No
Release date: Q2/2021
Max. displays: 3
Generation: 11
Direct X: 12
Technology: 10 nm
Max. GPU Memory: 64 GB
Frame Generation: No

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit): Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit): Decode / Encode
h264: Decode / Encode
VP8: Decode / Encode
VP9: Decode / Encode
AV1: Decode
AVC: Decode / Encode
VC-1: Decode
JPEG: Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The processor can use up to 128 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 51.2 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:
DDR4-3200
51.2 GB/s
Max. Memory: 128 GB
Memory channels: 2 (Dual Channel)
ECC: No
PCIe: 4.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth: 39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 45 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP): 45 W
TDP (PL2): --
TDP up: --
TDP down: 35 W
Tjunction max.: 100 °C

Technical details

The Intel Core i5-11260H is made in 10 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 17.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology: 10 nm
Chip design: Monolithic
Socket: BGA 1787
L2-Cache: 5.00 MB
L3-Cache: 12.00 MB
AES-NI: Yes
Operating systems: Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Virtualization: VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Instruction set (ISA): x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions: SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
Release date: Q2/2021
Release price: 250 $
Part Number: --
Documents: --

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Benchmark results

Verified Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Core i5-11260H have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.


Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD Ryzen 5 6600U AMD Ryzen 5 6600U
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz
1425
Intel Core i5-11400H Intel Core i5-11400H
6C 12T @ 4.50 GHz
1415
Intel Core i5-11300H Intel Core i5-11300H
4C 8T @ 4.40 GHz
1404
Intel Core i5-11260H Intel Core i5-11260H
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz
1394
AMD Ryzen 5 5625U AMD Ryzen 5 5625U
6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz
1382
AMD Ryzen 5 5600H AMD Ryzen 5 5600H
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz
1370
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5675U AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5675U
6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz
1364

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core Ultra 5 226V Intel Core Ultra 5 226V
8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
9041
Intel Core Ultra 5 228V Intel Core Ultra 5 228V
8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
9041
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 6650U AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 6650U
6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz
8977
Intel Core i5-11260H Intel Core i5-11260H
6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz
8970
Intel Core i5-1335U Intel Core i5-1335U
10C 12T @ 1.30 GHz
8970
Intel Core i7-10875H Intel Core i7-10875H
8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz
8901
Intel Core i7-10870H Intel Core i7-10870H
8C 16T @ 3.10 GHz
8814

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a partial load benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. In the single-core test, only the fastest CPU core is measured. The test run simulates the performance in practice.
Intel Core i5-11500H Intel Core i5-11500H
6C 12T @ 4.60 GHz
1934
Intel Core i5-11400H Intel Core i5-11400H
6C 12T @ 4.50 GHz
1922
Intel Core i7-11850H Intel Core i7-11850H
8C 16T @ 4.80 GHz
1922
Intel Core i5-11260H Intel Core i5-11260H
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz
1919
Intel Core i7-11370H Intel Core i7-11370H
4C 8T @ 4.80 GHz
1919
Intel Core i5-11320H Intel Core i5-11320H
4C 8T @ 4.50 GHz
1911
Intel Core i7-11600H Intel Core i7-11600H
6C 12T @ 4.60 GHz
1903

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

The practical Geekbench 6 multi-core benchmark tests the system's performance under partial load. The processor's maximum power consumption is far from being used up.
AMD Ryzen 7 4800H AMD Ryzen 7 4800H
8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz
7215
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz
7139
Intel Core i7-1355U Intel Core i7-1355U
10C 12T @ 1.70 GHz
7122
Intel Core i5-11260H Intel Core i5-11260H
6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz
7117
Intel Xeon W-10855M Intel Xeon W-10855M
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz
7082
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition
8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz
7040
AMD Ryzen 7 5800U AMD Ryzen 7 5800U
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz
6967

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i5-11320H Intel Core i5-11320H
4C 8T @ 4.50 GHz
1417
AMD Ryzen 7 5800U AMD Ryzen 7 5800U
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
1414
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
1414
Intel Core i5-11260H Intel Core i5-11260H
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz
1387
Intel Xeon E-2286M Intel Xeon E-2286M
8C 16T @ 5.00 GHz
1386
Intel Core i5-11300H Intel Core i5-11300H
4C 8T @ 4.40 GHz
1382
AMD Ryzen 5 5600H AMD Ryzen 5 5600H
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz
1376

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i7-1260U Intel Core i7-1260U
10C 12T @ 2.10 GHz
6874
Intel Xeon W-10855M Intel Xeon W-10855M
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz
6827
AMD Ryzen 7 5825C AMD Ryzen 7 5825C
8C 16T @ 2.80 GHz
6780
Intel Core i5-11260H Intel Core i5-11260H
6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz
6745
Intel Core i7-1265UL Intel Core i7-1265UL
10C 12T @ 3.40 GHz
6745
Intel Core i5-11500H Intel Core i5-11500H
6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz
6672
Intel Core i5-11400H Intel Core i5-11400H
6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz
6576

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i7-1068G7 Intel Core i7-1068G7
4C 8T @ 4.10 GHz
456
Intel Core i5-10310U Intel Core i5-10310U
4C 8T @ 4.40 GHz
454
AMD Ryzen 7 3700C AMD Ryzen 7 3700C
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
451
Intel Core i5-11260H Intel Core i5-11260H
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz
448
AMD Ryzen 5 4680U AMD Ryzen 5 4680U
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz
448
Intel Core i5-11300H Intel Core i5-11300H
4C 8T @ 4.40 GHz
448
AMD Ryzen 5 4600H AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz
448

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD Ryzen 7 4800H AMD Ryzen 7 4800H
8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz
3847
AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS
8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz
3847
AMD Ryzen 7 4800U AMD Ryzen 7 4800U
8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz
3847
Intel Core i5-11260H Intel Core i5-11260H
6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz
3831
Intel Core i5-11400H Intel Core i5-11400H
6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz
3745
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 6650U AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 6650U
6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz
3734
AMD Ryzen 5 5600H AMD Ryzen 5 5600H
6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz
3709

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Intel Celeron 5205U Intel Celeron 5205U
Intel UHD Graphics (Comet Lake) @ 0.90 GHz
361
Intel Celeron 5305U Intel Celeron 5305U
Intel UHD Graphics (Comet Lake) @ 0.90 GHz
361
Intel Celeron N5105 Intel Celeron N5105
Intel UHD Graphics 24 EUs (Jasper Lake) @ 0.90 GHz
360
Intel Core i5-11260H Intel Core i5-11260H
Intel UHD Graphics 11th Gen (16 EU) @ 1.40 GHz
358
AMD A10-4655M AMD A10-4655M
AMD Radeon HD 7620G @ 0.50 GHz
358
AMD A8-3500M AMD A8-3500M
AMD Radeon HD 6620G @ 0.44 GHz
355
AMD A8-3510MX AMD A8-3510MX
AMD Radeon HD 6620G @ 0.44 GHz
355

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
AMD Ryzen 7 5700U AMD Ryzen 7 5700U
8C 16T @ 3.30 GHz
15850
Intel Core i7-11600H Intel Core i7-11600H
6C 12T @ 2.50 GHz
15769
Intel Xeon W-10885M Intel Xeon W-10885M
8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz
15754
Intel Core i5-11260H Intel Core i5-11260H
6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz
15721
Intel Core i7-1355U Intel Core i7-1355U
10C 12T @ 1.70 GHz
15630
Apple M2 Apple M2
8C 8T @ 3.50 GHz
15472
Apple M2 (8-GPU) Apple M2 (8-GPU)
8C 8T @ 3.50 GHz
15472

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Intel Core i5-11400H Intel Core i5-11400H
6C 12T @ 2.70 GHz
3669
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U
8C 16T @ 1.70 GHz
3446
Intel Core i5-10500H Intel Core i5-10500H
6C 12T @ 2.50 GHz
3339
Intel Core i5-11260H Intel Core i5-11260H
6C 12T @ 2.60 GHz
3285
AMD Ryzen 5 4600H AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
6C 12T @ 3.00 GHz
3253
AMD Ryzen 5 4600U AMD Ryzen 5 4600U
6C 12T @ 2.10 GHz
3240
Intel Core i7-10850H Intel Core i7-10850H
6C 12T @ 2.70 GHz
3225

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