Intel Core i5-10400F vs Intel Core i5-13450HX

Core i5-10400F vs Core i5-13450HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13450HX beats the Core i5-10400F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10400F in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13450HX has significantly more cores than the Core i5-10400F. Indeed, the Core i5-13450HX has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-10400F. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10400F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-10400F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13450HX. Despite this, the Core i5-13450HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13450HX has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10400F. The Core i5-13450HX also has significantly 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 Core i5-10400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.