Intel Core i3-1115G4 vs Intel Core i5-12450H

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1829 points
5248 points
186% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points
7843 points
112% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1348 points
4484 points
232% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1293 points
4327 points
234% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

29.31 points
113.50 points
287% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

3244 points
9134 points
181% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
8
300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.00 GHz
49% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
4.4 GHz
7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

28 W
60% significantly lower TDP
45 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
Identical
64 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB
640 KiB
233% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB
25% slightly more L2 cache
2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
12 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

755th of 1,089
318th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i3
12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 August
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i3-1115G4 vs Core i5-12450H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12450H is faster than the Core i3-1115G4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-1115G4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12450H has significantly more cores than the Core i3-1115G4. Indeed, the Core i5-12450H has 8 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-1115G4. It also has more threads than the Core i3-1115G4. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-1115G4 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12450H. Despite this, the Core i5-12450H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-1115G4 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12450H CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i3-1115G4 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-12450H. Despite this, the Core i5-12450H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i3-1115G4.

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 Core i3-1115G4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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