Intel Core 5 120U vs Intel Core Ultra 5 135U

Core 5 120U vs Core Ultra 5 135U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 135U beats the Core 5 120U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 5 120U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 5 135U has slightly more cores than the Core 5 120U. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 135U has 12 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core 5 120U. It also has more threads than the Core 5 120U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 5 135U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 5 120U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 135U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core 5 120U. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core 5 120U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.