AMD Ryzen 5 1400 vs Intel Core 5 120U

Ryzen 5 1400 vs Core 5 120U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core 5 120U performs better than the Ryzen 5 1400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1400 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 5 120U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 1400 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1400. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1400 has a significantly higher clock speed than 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 5 1400. The Core 5 120U also has significantly more 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 Ryzen 5 1400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.