Intel Core 5 120U vs Intel Core Ultra 9 288V

Core 5 120U vs Core Ultra 9 288V benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core 5 120U beats the Core Ultra 9 288V in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 9 288V has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 5 120U has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core Ultra 9 288V that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 9 288V. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 288V has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 5 120U. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 9 288V has significantly more L2 cache when compared to 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.