AMD Ryzen 5 3450U vs Intel Core 5 120U

Ryzen 5 3450U vs Core 5 120U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core 5 120U performs better than the Ryzen 5 3450U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3450U 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 5 3450U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3450U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3450U 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 3450U. 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 3450U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.