AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS vs Intel Core 5 120U

Ryzen 7 7735HS vs Core 5 120U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 7735HS 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.

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 7735HS that has 8 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7735HS has more threads than the Core 5 120U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7735HS has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 5 120U. In terms of cache, the Core 5 120U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 7735HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7735HS has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core 5 120U.

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 7 7735HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.