Intel Core 5 120U vs AMD PRO A8-8670E

Core 5 120U vs PRO A8-8670E specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 5 120U is faster than the PRO A8-8670E. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the PRO A8-8670E in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 5 120U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the PRO A8-8670E has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the PRO A8-8670E. Our comparison shows that the PRO A8-8670E has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 5 120U. The info from our database shows that the Core 5 120U has more L2 cache than the PRO A8-8670E

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core 5 120U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.