AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core 5 120U

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core 5 120U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500U 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 5500U has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500U 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 5 5500U. 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 5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.