AMD Ryzen 7 5800U vs Intel Core 5 120U

Ryzen 7 5800U vs Core 5 120U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800U 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.

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 5800U that has 8 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800U has more threads than the Core 5 120U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 5 120U. The info from our database shows that the Core 5 120U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800U 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 5800U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.