Ryzen 7 260: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The AMD Ryzen 7 260 is a Hawk Point processor from 2025 — an 8-core, 45-watt H-class chip that powers the current wave of mid-range gaming laptops, carried by 16 models in the catalog. Measured as a processor it clears the recommended CPU tier in 49 of the 69 games the catalog tracks. This guide covers where the chip sits among laptop CPUs, what it brings, and which laptops carry it.

Where the Ryzen 7 260 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 60.5 places the chip 162nd of 741 scored laptop CPUs — the upper quarter of the table. The neighborhood is a tight pack: the Core Ultra 5 338H (60.8), Ryzen 7 8745HS (60.8) and Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U (60.5) just above, the Ryzen 5 4600HS (60.4), Core Ultra 5 336H (60.3) and Core i7-8569U (60.2) just below. Half a point separates six chips from four generations — the Ryzen 7 260 sits right in the middle of that cluster, a solidly upper-mid-table position for a current gaming platform.

What the chip brings

Hawk Point gives the chip 8 cores and 16 threads on a 4 nm-class process, at 3.8 GHz base and up to 5.1 GHz boost in a 45 W H-class envelope. The catalog holds a PassMark overall score of 28,185 for it — a substantial number that explains its gaming-laptop role. Memory and integrated graphics details were not captured for this entry, so the table above sticks to what the catalog verifiably holds.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 49 of 69 cataloged games — including Counter-Strike 2, Metro Exodus, PUBG, Returnal, Black Myth Wukong, Ghost of Tsushima, The Last of Us Part 1, God of War and Grand Theft Auto V. The near-misses are familiar names: Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, Fortnite, Red Dead Redemption 2 and The Witcher 3 sit above minimum but below recommended. Starfield and Helldivers 2 are the only titles beyond it entirely. These verdicts are CPU-only — the laptop's GPU and RAM decide actual playability, and on this roster the GPUs are the main event.

Laptops that carry it

The 16-model roster is gaming-first 2025 hardware: Acer's Nitro V 16 AI, 16S AI and 17 AI, MSI's Cyborg A15 and A17 AI, Gigabyte's A16 and A18, the ASUS TUF Gaming A18 and Lenovo Legion 5 Gen 10 — mostly at $1,440 — plus the ASUS Vivobook 18 and Vivobook S14 at $765 and a 2026 Alienware 15. The laptops built around it typically show a median gaming index of 80.5, photo and design index of 89, energy efficiency of 88.6, performance index of 73.3 and office comfort of a perfect 100 — with portability of 31 marking them as desktop-replacement builds.

Bottom line

The Ryzen 7 260 is the complete modern gaming package on the processor side: recommended-CPU clearance on 49 of 69 tracked games, a PassMark score near 28,000, and hosts — Nitro V, Cyborg, TUF, Legion — whose own medians run a gaming index above 80. The honest caveats are the two titles beyond its reach and a near-miss list that includes Cyberpunk 2077 and Elden Ring on the CPU side. Within the $1,440 tier it occupies, it is a chip buyers can buy without thinking twice about.