Intel Core i7 1260P vs AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 2.1 GHz Intel Core i7 1260P with 12-cores against the 3.8 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS with 8-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 8845HS and 1260P
Advantages of Intel Core i7 1260P
  • Has 4 more physical cores
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • More modern manufacturing process – 4 versus 10 nanometers
  • More powerful Radeon 780M integrated graphics: 4.1 vs 2.2 TFLOPS
  • Newer - released 1 year and 10 months later
  • 18% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2580 vs 2194 points
  • 9% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.1 GHz vs 4.7 GHz)

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Cinebench 2026 (Single) - 570
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) - 4125
Cinebench Scores (#175th place)

GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
2580
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
13018
File compression 795.1 MB/sec 1120 MB/sec
Clang compilation 64.2 Klines/sec 96.4 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 226.5 pages/sec 278.2 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 267.2 Mpixels/sec 374.3 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 204.5 pages/sec 261.9 pages/sec
Background blur 38.4 images/sec 59.9 images/sec
Photo processing 88 images/sec 110.7 images/sec
Ray tracing 14 Mpixels/sec 22.3 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 1127 & 158 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
3721
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
28291
Integer math 61.2 GOps/sec 97 GOps/sec
Floating point math 41.7 GOps/sec 58.8 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 61M Primes/sec 86M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 20.2M Strings/sec 41.4M Strings/sec
Data encryption 11 GBytes/sec 20.3 GBytes/sec
Data compression 180.2 MBytes/sec 341.6 MBytes/sec
Physics 1060 Frames/sec 1339 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 10.3B Matrices/sec 25.4B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 2810 & 3870 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
118.71
205.32

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 5.9 PPW 17.3 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 331.4 PPW 241.1 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 587.4 PPW 523.9 PPW
Blender / Watt 4.24 PPW 3.8 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Core i7 1260P
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2024-10-12 (Guest #0)Cinebench 202452 / 166
AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-15 (korn87)Cinebench 2026570 / 4125
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-07 (korn87)Geekbench 6 CPU2718 / 13855
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-07 (korn87)Cinebench 2026570 / 4125
πŸ“˜ 2026-03-09 (MaidElle)Geekbench 6 CPU2514 / 12971
πŸ“˜ 2026-02-26 (iFraan)Geekbench 6 CPU2331 / 10135

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core i7 1260P and AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released February 23, 2022 December 6, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Alder Lake Zen 4 (Hawk Point)
Model number i7-1260P -
Integrated GPU Iris Xe Graphics (96EU) Radeon 780M
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 7 5800U - Intel Core Ultra 7 165H
Successor - Intel Core i7 1360P - AMD Ryzen 7 260
Intel CPU rating (#198th place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#60th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 8
P-Threads 8 16
Base Frequency (P) 2.1 GHz 3.8 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.7 GHz 5.1 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 8 -
E-Threads 8 -
Base Frequency (E) 1.5 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 3.4 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 12 8
Total Threads 16 16
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 21x 38x
L1 Cache 80K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 1280K (per core) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache 18MB (shared) 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors - 25 billions
Fabrication Process 10 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) 20-28 W (configurable) 35-54 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 64 W -
Socket BGA-1744 FP8
Peak Temperature 100Β°C 100Β°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel Iris Xe Graphics (96EU) Radeon 780M
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 800 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1400 MHz 2700 MHz
Shading Units 768 768
TMUs 48 48
ROPs 24 32
Execution Units 96 12
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
2.2 TFLOPS
4.1 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR5-4800
- DDR4-3200
- LPDDR5-5200
- LPDDR4x-4267
- DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5x-7500
Max. Memory Size 64 GB 256 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core i7 1260P official page AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 20 20

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