Intel Core i5-10500 vs Intel Core 5 120U

Core i5-10500 vs Core 5 120U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10500 beats the Core 5 120U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core 5 120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 5 120U has significantly more cores than the Core i5-10500. Indeed, the Core 5 120U has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-10500. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-10500 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 Core i5-10500. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i5-10500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.