AMD Ryzen 7 4700U vs Intel Core 5 120U

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 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

4283 points
4342 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6364 points
7190 points
12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3616 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
3534 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3464 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
3381 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

86.75 points
1% slightly higher Blender score
85.75 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4938 points
7114 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1356 points
2111 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
10
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
42% much higher clock speed
1.4 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
6.5 MiB
62% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
12 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

411th of 1,089
407th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile
Core (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 4700U vs Core 5 120U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core 5 120U beats the Ryzen 7 4700U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 4700U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 5 120U has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 4700U has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 4700U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 4700U has a much 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 7 4700U. 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. For instance, the Ryzen 7 4700U has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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