Intel Core i7-9700K vs Intel Core i5-12450HX

Core i7-9700K vs Core i5-12450HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12450HX beats the Core i7-9700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9700K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-12450HX has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-9700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12450HX. Also, the Core i7-9700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12450HX outputs less heat than Core i7-9700K 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 i5-12450HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-9700K. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i7-9700K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.