Intel Core i5-4460 vs Intel Core i5-12450HX

Core i5-4460 vs Core i5-12450HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12450HX beats the Core i5-4460 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4460 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 i5-4460 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4460. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-4460 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 i5-4460 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-12450HX has more L2 cache than the Core i5-4460. The Core i5-12450HX also has significantly 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. For instance, the Core i5-4460 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.