Intel Core i5-8300H vs Intel Core 5 120U

Core i5-8300H vs Core 5 120U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-8300H performs better than the Core 5 120U. Despite this, the Core 5 120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 5 120U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i5-8300H that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8300H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8300H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 5 120U. In terms of cache, the Core 5 120U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8300H. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i5-8300H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.