Intel Core 5 120U vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U

Core 5 120U vs Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U performs better than the Core 5 120U. Despite this, the Core 5 120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 5 120U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 5 120U. In terms of cache, the Core 5 120U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U. The Core 5 120U also has significantly more 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.