Intel Core i5-13450HX vs Intel Core i3-13100

Core i5-13450HX vs Core i3-13100 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13450HX beats the Core i3-13100 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-13100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13450HX has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i3-13100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-13100. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-13100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13450HX. Despite this, the Core i5-13450HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13450HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-13100. The Core i5-13450HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-13450HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.