Intel Core i5-13450HX vs Intel Core i9-14900HX

Core i5-13450HX vs Core i9-14900HX benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-14900HX performs better than the Core i5-13450HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13450HX in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-14900HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Core i5-13450HX that 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 i9-14900HX. Despite this, the Core i9-14900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-14900HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-13450HX. The Core i9-14900HX 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.