Intel Core i7-3770S vs Intel Core 5 120U

Core i7-3770S vs Core 5 120U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core 5 120U beats the Core i7-3770S in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3770S in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 5 120U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-3770S has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770S. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-3770S 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 i7-3770S has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.