AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS vs Intel Core 5 120U

Ryzen 7 8845HS vs Core 5 120U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 8845HS is faster than the Core 5 120U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 5 120U 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 8845HS has 8 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 8845HS has more threads than the Core 5 120U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 8845HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 5 120U. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 8845HS has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core 5 120U. The Ryzen 7 8845HS also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8845HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.