Intel Core i5-12450H vs Intel Core i7-12650H

Core i5-12450H vs Core i7-12650H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12650H beats the Core i5-12450H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12450H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12650H has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-12450H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12450H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12650H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12450H. Also, the Core i7-12650H 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i7-12650H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-12450H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.