Intel Core i5-12450HX vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Core i5-12450HX vs EPYC 74F3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12450HX beats the EPYC 74F3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the EPYC 74F3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the EPYC 74F3 has slightly more cores with 9 cores whereas the Core i5-12450HX has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12450HX. Our comparison shows that the EPYC 74F3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12450HX. A Core i5-12450HX CPU outputs less heat than a EPYC 74F3 CPU because of its significantly 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 Core i5-12450HX has more L2 cache than the EPYC 74F3. Despite this, the EPYC 74F3 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-12450HX.

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.