Intel Core i5-3450 vs Intel Core i5-650

Core i5-3450 vs Core i5-650 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3450 beats the Core i5-650 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-650 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-3450 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-650. Indeed, the Core i5-3450 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-650. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-650 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3450. Despite this, the Core i5-3450 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-650 outputs less heat than Core i5-3450 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. For instance, the Core i5-3450 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.