Intel Core i5-13420H vs Intel Core 5 120U

Core i5-13420H vs Core 5 120U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13420H 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 5 120U has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-13420H has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-13420H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 5 120U. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13420H has more L2 cache than the Core 5 120U. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i5-13420H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.