AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U vs Intel Core 5 120U

Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U vs Core 5 120U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 5 120U is faster than the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U 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 PRO 3500U. Indeed, the Core 5 120U has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 5 120U. In terms of cache, the Core 5 120U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. The Core 5 120U also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.