Intel Core i5-13450HX vs Intel Core i7-12850HX

Core i5-13450HX vs Core i7-12850HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12850HX beats the Core i5-13450HX in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13450HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12850HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-13450HX that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13450HX. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-13450HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12850HX. Despite this, the Core i7-12850HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-12850HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13450HX. The Core i7-12850HX 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.