Intel Core i5-12450H vs AMD Ryzen 7 7745HX

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 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

5248 points

9190 points

75% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7843 points

10842 points

38% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4484 points

8600 points

91% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4327 points

8405 points

94% significantly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5258 points

7934 points

50% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.50 points

241.01 points

112% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

9134 points

18060 points

97% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

3.60 GHz

80% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

5.1 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

22% slightly lower TDP

55 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

8 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

32 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

318th of 1,089

107th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-12450H vs Ryzen 7 7745HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7745HX 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.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 7 7745HX has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7745HX has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12450H. Also, the Ryzen 7 7745HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-12450H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 7745HX CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 7745HX has more L2 cache than the Core i5-12450H. The Ryzen 7 7745HX 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.