Intel Core i7-11700 vs Intel Core i5-12450H

Core i7-11700 vs Core i5-12450H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-11700 is faster than the Core i5-12450H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12450H in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-11700 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-11700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12450H. Also, the Core i7-11700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12450H outputs less heat than Core i7-11700 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-11700 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-12450H. The Core i7-11700 also has slightly 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. Indeed, the Core i7-11700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.