Intel Core i5-12450HX vs Intel Core i3-14100F

Core i5-12450HX vs Core i3-14100F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12450HX beats the Core i3-14100F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-14100F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12450HX has significantly more cores than the Core i3-14100F. Indeed, the Core i5-12450HX has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-14100F. It also has more threads than the Core i3-14100F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-14100F has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12450HX. Also, the Core i3-14100F has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-12450HX has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-14100F. 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 i5-12450HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.