AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS vs Intel Core 5 120U

Ryzen 7 5800HS vs Core 5 120U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800HS beats the Core 5 120U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core 5 120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 5 120U has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5800HS that has 8 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800HS has more threads than the Core 5 120U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800HS has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 5 120U. The info from our database shows that the Core 5 120U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800HS 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 7 5800HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.