AMD Ryzen 5 5625U 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

4185 points
4342 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5956 points
7190 points
20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3648 points
3% slightly better multitasking score
3534 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3528 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score
3381 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

101.12 points
17% slightly higher Blender score
85.75 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5479 points
7114 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1585 points
2111 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
10
66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.30 GHz
64% significantly higher clock speed
1.4 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

16 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

421st 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

2022 January
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 5625U vs Core 5 120U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core 5 120U beats the Ryzen 5 5625U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5625U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 5 120U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5625U. Indeed, the Core 5 120U has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5625U. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5625U 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 5625U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5625U has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core 5 120U.

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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5625U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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