Intel Core i3-1125G4 vs Intel Core 5 120U

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i3 4 core CPU vs Intel 10 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

2810 points

4342 points

54% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4729 points

7190 points

52% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2253 points

3534 points

56% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2154 points

3381 points

56% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.54 points

85.75 points

88% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4001 points

7114 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1417 points

2111 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

96 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

568th of 1,089

407th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i3

Core (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-1125G4 vs Core 5 120U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-1125G4 beats the Core 5 120U in overall performance. 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 Core i3-1125G4 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-1125G4.

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 i3-1125G4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.