Ryzen 7 260: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
AMD started Ryzen 7 260 sales 6 January 2025. This is a Hawk Point architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at home systems. It has 8 cores and 16 threads, and is based on 4 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 5100 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket FP8 processor with a TDP of 45 Watt. It supports DDR5 memory.
Primary details
Ryzen 7 260 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Designer | AMD | |
| Manufacturer | TSMC | |
| Architecture codename | Hawk Point (2024−2025) | |
| Release date | 6 January 2025 (less than a year 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 cores | 8 (Octa-Core) | |
| Threads | 16 | |
| Base clock speed | 3.8 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (Ryzen 9 7900X) |
| Boost clock speed | 5.1 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 64 KB (per core) | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 1 MB (per core) | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 16 MB (shared) | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 4 nm | of 3 nm (EPYC 9845) |
| Die size | 178 mm2 | |
| Number of transistors | 25,000 million | of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X) |
| 64 bit support | + |
Compatibility
Information on Ryzen 7 260 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 configuration | 1 | of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H) |
| Socket | FP8 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 45 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 7 260. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| AES-NI | + | |
| AVX | + | |
| Precision Boost 2 | + |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| AMD-V | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Ryzen 7 260's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR5 |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Ryzen 7 260.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon 780M |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 4.0 | of 5.0 (EPYC 9655P) |
| PCI Express lanes | 20 | of 128 (EPYC 9655P) |
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 Ryzen 7 260, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Ryzen 7 260 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 5 configurations using Ryzen 7 260 in our database.
