Intel Core i5-8600 vs Intel Core 5 120U

Core i5-8600 vs Core 5 120U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-8600 performs better than the Core 5 120U. 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 i5-8600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8600. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8600 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 i5-8600. The Core 5 120U also has slightly more 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. For instance, the Core i5-8600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.