Intel Core i5-11600 vs Intel Core i5-12450HX

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 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

5920 points
5938 points
0.30% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8284 points
8351 points
0.81% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5201 points
5219 points
0.35% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5041 points
5059 points
0.36% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

158.65 points
20% slightly higher Blender score
131.60 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz
16% slightly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
9% slightly higher turbo speed
4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
55 W
18% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
Identical
20

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
Identical
128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB
640 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
7 MiB
133% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
Identical
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

258th of 1,089
255th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5
12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i5-11600 vs Core i5-12450HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12450HX is faster than the Core i5-11600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11600 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12450HX has slightly more cores than the Core i5-11600. Indeed, the Core i5-12450HX has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11600. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12450HX. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-12450HX has more L2 cache than the Core i5-11600. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i5-11600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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