Intel Core i5-3550 vs Intel Core i5-12450HX

Core i5-3550 vs Core i5-12450HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12450HX beats the Core i5-3550 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3550 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12450HX has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-3550 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3550. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3550 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12450HX. Despite this, the Core i5-12450HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12450HX outputs less heat than Core i5-3550 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 i5-3550 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.