AMD Ryzen 3 7320U vs Intel Core 5 120U

Ryzen 3 7320U vs Core 5 120U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 7320U beats the Core 5 120U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core 5 120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 5 120U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 7320U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 7320U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 7320U 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 Ryzen 3 7320U. 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 7320U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.