AMD Ryzen 5 4600U vs Intel Core 5 120U

Ryzen 5 4600U vs Core 5 120U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 4600U is faster than the Core 5 120U. 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 5 4600U has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 4600U 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 4600U. 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 4600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.