Intel Core i7-12650H vs Intel Core i9-14900HX

Core i7-12650H vs Core i9-14900HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900HX 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-14900HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Core i7-12650H has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12650H. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-12650H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900HX. Despite this, the Core i9-14900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i9-14900HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-12650H. The Core i9-14900HX also has significantly 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 i7-12650H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.