Intel Core i7-12650H vs Intel Core i5-13450HX

Core i7-12650H vs Core i5-13450HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13450HX performs better than the Core i7-12650H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12650H in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-13450HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12650H. Despite this, the Core i7-12650H has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13450HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-12650H. Despite this, the Core i7-12650H has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13450HX.

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 i7-12650H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.