Intel Core i7-6700 vs Intel Core 5 120U

Core i7-6700 vs Core 5 120U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 5 120U is faster than the Core i7-6700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700 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 i7-6700 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 5 120U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 5 120U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700. The Core 5 120U also has significantly more 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 i7-6700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.