Product Compare

Intel Core 5 120F vs Intel Core i5 8500

	CPU Intel Core 5 120F	CPU Intel Core i5 8500
General Parameters
Release Date	Jun 2025	Apr 2018
Manufacturer	Intel	Intel
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Instruction Set	x86-64	x86-64
Processor Number	120F	i5-8500
Integrated Graphics	No	UHD Graphics 630
Core Architecture		Coffee Lake
Package
Manufacturing Process	10 nm	14 nm
Socket	LGA-1700	LGA-1151
Power Consumption	65 W	65 W
Peak Operating Temperature	100 °C	100 °C
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	6	6
Performance Core Threads	12	6
Performance Core Base Frequency	2.5 GHz	3.0 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	4.5 GHz	4.1 GHz
Total Core Count	6	6
Total Thread Count	12	6
Bus Frequency	100 MHz	100 MHz
Multiplier	25	30x
L1 Cache	80 K per core	64 K per core
L2 Cache	1280 K per core	256 K per core
L3 Cache	18 MB shared	9 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	No	No
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR5-4800,DDR4-3200	DDR4-2666
Max Memory Bandwidth	76.8 GB/s	41.6 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	No	No
Max Memory Size		128 GB
Max Memory Channels		2
Miscellaneous
PCIe Version	5.0	3.0
PCIe Lanes	20	16
Official Website		Official Link ↗
Extended Instruction Set		SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics		true
GPU Base Frequency		350 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency		1100 MHz
Shader Units		192
Texture Units		24
Raster Operation Units		3
Execution Units		24
Power Consumption		15 W
Max Resolution		4096x2304 - 60 Hz
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 Single Core	1707	1051
Cinebench R23 Multi Core	12236	5502
Geekbench 6 Single Core	2305	1372
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	9773	5468