Intel Core i7-1195G7 vs Intel Core 5 120U

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2907 points
4342 points
49% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5009 points
7190 points
43% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2332 points
3534 points
51% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2246 points
3381 points
50% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

53.42 points
85.75 points
60% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5157 points
7114 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1797 points
2111 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
10
150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
107% significantly higher clock speed
1.4 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
96 GiB
49% significantly more supported memory

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
Identical
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

549th of 1,089
407th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i7
Core (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i7-1195G7 vs Core 5 120U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-1195G7 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 i7-1195G7 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-1195G7. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-1195G7 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 5 120U.

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. Indeed, the Core i7-1195G7 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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