Intel Core i5-13450HX vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840U

Core i5-13450HX vs Ryzen 7 8840U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13450HX beats the Ryzen 7 8840U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 8840U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13450HX has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 8840U has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8840U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13450HX. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13450HX has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 8840U. The Core i5-13450HX 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.