Intel Core i7-12650H vs Intel Core i5-14450HX

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i7 10 core CPU vs Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7176 points
7353 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9511 points
9822 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6485 points
6634 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6334 points
6496 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

154.80 points
197.64 points
27% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
Identical
10

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
2.4 GHz
4% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
4.8 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

28
40% slightly more pcie lanes
20

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
192 GiB
200% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
4 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB
20% slightly more L3 cache
20 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

180th of 1,089
171st of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7
Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-12650H vs Core i5-14450HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-14450HX is faster than the Core i7-12650H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12650H in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-14450HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12650H. Also, the Core i5-14450HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-14450HX has more L2 cache than the Core i7-12650H. Despite this, the Core i7-12650H has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-14450HX.

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.

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