Intel Core i7-10700K vs Intel Core i5-12450H

Core i7-10700K vs Core i5-12450H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10700K beats the Core i5-12450H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12450H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-10700K has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-10700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12450H. Also, the Core i7-10700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12450H outputs less heat than Core i7-10700K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i7-10700K 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 i7-10700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.