Intel Core i5-14500 vs Intel Core i7-12850HX

Core i5-14500 vs Core i7-12850HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-14500 beats the Core i7-12850HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12850HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12850HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-14500 has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14500. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-14500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12850HX. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-12850HX has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-14500. The Core i7-12850HX also has slightly 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 i5-14500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.