AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS vs Intel Core 5 120U

Ryzen 5 8645HS vs Core 5 120U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 8645HS 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 8645HS has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 8645HS 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 slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 8645HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8645HS has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core 5 120U.

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 8645HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.