Intel Core i5-12450H vs Intel Core Ultra 7 356H

Core i5-12450H vs Core Ultra 7 356H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12450H beats the Core Ultra 7 356H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 356H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 356H has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-12450H that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12450H. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12450H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 356H. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 356H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-12450H. The Core Ultra 7 356H also has significantly more 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 i5-12450H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.