Intel Core i7-1355U vs Intel Core 5 120U

Core i7-1355U vs Core 5 120U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-1355U 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.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-1355U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 5 120U. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache and 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. Indeed, the Core i7-1355U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.