Intel Core i7-12800H vs Intel Core i5-13450HX

Core i7-12800H vs Core i5-13450HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12800H beats the Core i5-13450HX in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13450HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12800H has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i5-13450HX that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13450HX. Both the Core i7-12800H and Core i5-13450HX have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-12800H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13450HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-12800H. Despite this, the Core i7-12800H has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13450HX.

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 i7-12800H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.