Intel Core i7-4790S vs Intel Core 5 120U

Core i7-4790S vs Core 5 120U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4790S performs better than the Core 5 120U. Despite this, the Core 5 120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 5 120U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i7-4790S that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790S. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4790S has a significantly higher clock speed than 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 i7-4790S has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.