Intel Core i5-13450HX vs Intel Core i5-12450HX

Core i5-13450HX vs Core i5-12450HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13450HX performs better than the Core i5-12450HX. Despite this, the Core i5-12450HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13450HX has slightly more cores than the Core i5-12450HX. Indeed, the Core i5-13450HX has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i5-12450HX. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12450HX. In terms of clock speed, the Core i5-13450HX and Core i5-12450HX are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i5-13450HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13450HX has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-12450HX. The Core i5-13450HX also has significantly more 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 i5-13450HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.