Ryzen 5 7430U vs Core 5 120U specs and performance
In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7430U beats the Core 5 120U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 5 120U 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 7430U. Indeed, the Core 5 120U has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7430U. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7430U 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 7430U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7430U 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 7430U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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