Intel Core i7-4770K vs Intel Core i5-12450H

Core i7-4770K vs Core i5-12450H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12450H beats the Core i7-4770K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4770K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12450H has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4770K. Indeed, the Core i5-12450H has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4770K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4770K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4770K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12450H. Despite this, the Core i5-12450H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12450H outputs less heat than Core i7-4770K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i5-12450H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4770K. The Core i5-12450H 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 i7-4770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.