Intel Core i5-12450HX vs Intel Core Ultra 5 135U

Core i5-12450HX vs Core Ultra 5 135U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12450HX beats the Core Ultra 5 135U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 5 135U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 5 135U has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12450HX. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 135U has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i5-12450HX. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12450HX. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12450HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 5 135U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 135U has many more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-12450HX. 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.