Intel Core i5-12450HX vs AMD Ryzen 7 7445HS

Core i5-12450HX vs Ryzen 7 7445HS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7445HS beats the Core i5-12450HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12450HX in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12450HX has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 7 7445HS. Indeed, the Core i5-12450HX has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7445HS. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7445HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12450HX. Also, the Ryzen 7 7445HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7445HS outputs less heat than Core i5-12450HX thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-12450HX has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7445HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7445HS has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-12450HX.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-12450HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.