Intel Core i7-9700 vs Intel Core i5-12450H

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 8 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

5190 points

5248 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7573 points

7843 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4403 points

4484 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4217 points

4327 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5171 points

5258 points

1% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.42 points

113.50 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

49% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

75% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

64 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

640 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

Identical

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

Identical

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

326th of 1,089

318th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i7

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-9700 vs Core i5-12450H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12450H is faster than the Core i7-9700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9700 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i5-12450H has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-9700 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12450H. Also, the Core i7-9700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12450H outputs less heat than Core i7-9700 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and 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. For instance, the Core i7-9700 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.