Intel Core i5-1345U vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Core i5-1345U vs Core i5-13420H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13420H beats the Core i5-1345U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-1345U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1345U has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-13420H has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13420H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1345U. Despite this, the Core i5-1345U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13420H has more L2 cache than the Core i5-1345U. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-1345U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.