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

CPU lineage

The segment in which we have classified the Intel Core i5-11260H. Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the Intel Core i5-11260H.

Name: Intel Core i5-11260H
Family: Intel Core i5 (331)
CPU group: Intel Core i 11000H (17)
Architecture: Tiger Lake H
Segment: Mobile
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

Internal Graphics

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.
Intel Core i5-11400 Intel Core i5-11400
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz
1402
Intel Core i5-11400F Intel Core i5-11400F
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz
1402
AMD Ryzen 5 5500 AMD Ryzen 5 5500
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz
1396
Intel Core i5-11260H Intel Core i5-11260H
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz
1394
Intel Core i5-10600KF Intel Core i5-10600KF
6C 12T @ 4.80 GHz
1391
Intel Core i5-10600K Intel Core i5-10600K
6C 12T @ 4.80 GHz
1391
AMD Ryzen 5 5625U AMD Ryzen 5 5625U
6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz
1382

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 i3-14100 Intel Core i3-14100
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz
9091
Intel Core i5-10600 Intel Core i5-10600
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz
9024
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 i7-8700K Intel Core i7-8700K
6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz
8960
AMD Ryzen 7 2700 AMD Ryzen 7 2700
8C 16T @ 3.60 GHz
8947

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 Xeon E-2276G Intel Xeon E-2276G
6C 12T @ 4.90 GHz
1402
Intel Xeon E-2236 Intel Xeon E-2236
6C 6T @ 4.80 GHz
1396
Intel Core i9-9990XE Intel Core i9-9990XE
14C 28T @ 5.10 GHz
1392
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
AMD EPYC 7573X AMD EPYC 7573X
32C 64T @ 3.60 GHz
1382
AMD EPYC 7313P AMD EPYC 7313P
16C 32T @ 3.70 GHz
1382

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.
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 AMD Ryzen 5 3600
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz
6821
AMD Ryzen 7 5825C AMD Ryzen 7 5825C
8C 16T @ 2.80 GHz
6780
Intel Core i7-7800X Intel Core i7-7800X
6C 12T @ 3.90 GHz
6759
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 i7-9700F Intel Core i7-9700F
8C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
6714
Intel Core i7-9700 Intel Core i7-9700
8C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
6714

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy
8C 8T @ 3.36 GHz
1924
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
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5750GE AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5750GE
8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz
1910

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Intel Core i5-10600K Intel Core i5-10600K
6C 12T @ 4.50 GHz
7169
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
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
8C 8T @ 3.40 GHz
7117
Intel Xeon E-2286G Intel Xeon E-2286G
6C 6T @ 4.40 GHz
7088
Intel Core i3-12300T Intel Core i3-12300T
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
7086

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 i5-10400 Intel Core i5-10400
6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz
450
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X
16C 32T @ 4.40 GHz
449
Intel Core i9-9900T Intel Core i9-9900T
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
449
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
Intel Core i3-10100F Intel Core i3-10100F
4C 8T @ 4.30 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 4800U AMD Ryzen 7 4800U
8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz
3847
Microsoft XBox Series S Microsoft XBox Series S
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz
3837
Intel Core i5-11260H Intel Core i5-11260H
6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz
3831
AMD Ryzen 5 3600X AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz
3751
Intel Core i5-11400H Intel Core i5-11400H
6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz
3745
Sony Playstation 5 Sony Playstation 5
8C 16T @ 3.50 GHz
3735

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 N5105 Intel Celeron N5105
Intel UHD Graphics 24 EUs (Jasper Lake) @ 0.90 GHz
360
Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 Qualcomm Snapdragon 670
Qualcomm Adreno 615 @ 0.70 GHz
358
Intel Core i5-11260H Intel Core i5-11260H
Intel UHD Graphics 11th Gen (16 EU) @ 1.40 GHz
358
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2
Qualcomm Adreno 618 @ 0.70 GHz
358
Intel Core i3-11100B Intel Core i3-11100B
Intel UHD Graphics 11th Gen (16 EU) @ 1.40 GHz
358
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c
Qualcomm Adreno 618 @ 0.70 GHz
358

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.
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
AMD Ryzen 7 2700 AMD Ryzen 7 2700
8C 16T @ 3.60 GHz
15740
Intel Core i5-11260H Intel Core i5-11260H
6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz
15721
AMD Ryzen 7 1700X AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
8C 16T @ 3.60 GHz
15702
AMD Ryzen 5 4600GE AMD Ryzen 5 4600GE
6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz
15640
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE
6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz
15640

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 i7-7800X Intel Core i7-7800X
6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz
3341
AMD Ryzen 5 2600 AMD Ryzen 5 2600
6C 12T @ 3.40 GHz
3340
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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