Intel Core i5-9400F vs Intel Core 5 120U

Core i5-9400F vs Core 5 120U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 5 120U is faster than the Core i5-9400F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9400F 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 i5-9400F. Indeed, the Core 5 120U has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-9400F. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9400F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-9400F has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 5 120U. The info from our database shows that the Core 5 120U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-9400F. The Core 5 120U also has slightly more 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. For instance, the Core i5-9400F has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.