Intel Core i9-8950HK vs Intel Core 5 120U

Core i9-8950HK vs Core 5 120U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-8950HK beats the Core 5 120U in overall performance. 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 i9-8950HK that has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-8950HK has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 5 120U. The info from our database shows that the Core 5 120U has more L2 cache than the Core i9-8950HK. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i9-8950HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.