Intel Core 5 120U vs AMD Ryzen 5 7535U

Compare Intel Core (Series 1) 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4396 points
5343 points
21% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7260 points
7732 points
6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3586 points
4604 points
28% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3432 points
4446 points
29% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.75 points
110.60 points
28% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7114 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
6546 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2111 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1753 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
66% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.4 GHz
2.90 GHz
107% significantly higher clock speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6.5 MiB
116% significantly more L2 cache
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
16 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

413th of 1,111
318th of 1,111

Family

The product line

Core (Series 1)
Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5200
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core 5 120U vs Ryzen 5 7535U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7535U 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 5 120U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7535U. Indeed, the Core 5 120U has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7535U. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7535U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 5 120U. The info from our database shows that the Core 5 120U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7535U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7535U has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core 5 120U.

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.

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