AMD Ryzen 3 5425U vs Intel Core 5 120U

Ryzen 3 5425U vs Core 5 120U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core 5 120U performs better than the Ryzen 3 5425U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 5425U 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 Ryzen 3 5425U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 5425U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 5425U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 5 120U. In terms of cache, the Core 5 120U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 3 5425U. 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 Ryzen 3 5425U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.