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Is the Intel Core i5-8260U @ 1.60GHz Good for Gaming?
This is a fairly old CPU that is no longer competitive with newer CPUs. But this CPU contains 4 Cores and 8 Threads. Paired with a good videocard, is this CPU Good for Gaming? This CPU should be able to play most games, but may be a bottleneck on newer releases. [More ...]
Description: Intel UHD Graphics 620
Class: Laptop
Socket: FCBGA1528
Clockspeed: 1.6 GHz
Turbo Speed: 3.9 GHz
Cores: 4 Threads: 8
Typical TDP: 15 W
TDP Down: 10 W
TDP Up: 25 W
Cache per CPU Package:
L1 Instruction Cache: 4 x 32 KB
L1 Data Cache: 4 x 32 KB
L2 Cache: 4 x 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Memory Support: Max. Memory Size: 64 GB (DDR4-2400, LPDDR3-2133)
Other names: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8260U CPU @ 1.60GHz
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q2 2020
CPUmark/$Price: 16.82
Overall Rank:
1636th fastest in multithreading out of 5157 CPUs
1318th fastest in single threading out of 5157 CPUs
397th fastest in out of 1491 Laptop CPUs
Last Price Change: $439.99 USD (2021-05-18)
| Integer Math | 25,081 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 15,611 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 20 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 13,415 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 2,577 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 103,389 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 461 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 6,734 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 2,225 MOps/Sec |
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,143 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 20,831 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 20,061 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 18,245 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | 16,727 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,652 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,146 | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | 11,649 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 10,693 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 9,538 | |
| Intel Core i5-8260U @ 1.60GHz | 7,400 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 50.79 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 30.87 | |
| Intel Core i5-8260U @ 1.60GHz | 16.82 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 11.14 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | NA | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | NA |
| Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,900 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,836 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,680 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 3,047 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 3,026 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | 2,914 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 2,645 | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | 2,631 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 2,599 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 2,406 | |
| Intel Core i5-8260U @ 1.60GHz | 2,225 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL2703413 - Jun 17 2025 | 8407 | |
| BL2701989 - Jun 17 2025 | 6467 | |
| BL2263629 - Dec 03 2024 | 6305 | |
| BL2234314 - Nov 01 2024 | 5535 | |
| BL2168907 - Aug 14 2024 | 4448 |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D | 9,809 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX | 8,904 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265 | 8,103 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX | 7,976 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265H | 7,766 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900HX | 7,053 | |
| AMD Ryzen AI Max 390 | 7,027 | |
| Intel Core 7 250H | 6,905 | |
| AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 390 | 6,850 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900HX | 6,782 | |
| Intel Core i9-13980HX | 6,764 | |
| Intel Core i9-13950HX | 6,763 | |
| Intel Core i5-8260U @ 1.60GHz | 763 |
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