AMD Ryzen 5 4500U vs Intel Core 5 120U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel Core (Series 1) 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3472 points

4342 points

25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5565 points

7190 points

29% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2824 points

3534 points

25% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2709 points

3381 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

69.25 points

85.75 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

64% significantly higher clock speed

1.4 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

6.5 MiB

116% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

487th of 1,089

407th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Core (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 4500U vs Core 5 120U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 4500U performs better than the Core 5 120U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 5 120U 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 4500U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4500U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 4500U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 5 120U. The info from our database shows that the Core 5 120U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 4500U. The Core 5 120U also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Ryzen 5 4500U has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.