Intel Core i5-11500H vs Intel Core i5-12450H

Core i5-11500H vs Core i5-12450H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-11500H performs better than the Core i5-12450H. Despite this, the Core i5-12450H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12450H has slightly more cores than the Core i5-11500H. Indeed, the Core i5-12450H has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11500H. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11500H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12450H. Also, the Core i5-11500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-11500H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.