Intel Core i7-12700H vs Intel Core 5 120U

Core i7-12700H vs Core 5 120U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700H is faster than the Core 5 120U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 5 120U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12700H has slightly more cores than the Core 5 120U. Indeed, the Core i7-12700H has 14 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core 5 120U. It also has more threads than the Core 5 120U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-12700H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 5 120U.

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. Indeed, the Core i7-12700H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.