Intel Core i7-7700 vs Intel Core i5-12450H

Core i7-7700 vs Core i5-12450H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12450H is faster than the Core i7-7700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7700 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12450H has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-7700 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to 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 i7-7700 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 i7-7700. The Core i5-12450H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-7700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.