Intel Core i5-13450HX vs Intel Core i7-12650HX

Core i5-13450HX vs Core i7-12650HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12650HX beats the Core i5-13450HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13450HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12650HX has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i5-13450HX has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13450HX. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-13450HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12650HX. Despite this, the Core i7-12650HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-12650HX has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13450HX. The Core i7-12650HX also has slightly 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.