Intel Core i5-4210U vs Intel Core 5 120U

Core i5-4210U vs Core 5 120U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 5 120U is faster than the Core i5-4210U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4210U 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 Core i5-4210U. Indeed, the Core 5 120U has 10 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-4210U. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4210U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4210U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 5 120U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-4210U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.