Intel Core 5 120U vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500H

Core 5 120U vs Ryzen 5 5500H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core 5 120U performs better than the Ryzen 5 5500H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500H 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 Ryzen 5 5500H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 5 120U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 5 120U has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500H. The Core 5 120U also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core 5 120U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.