Intel Core i9-10980HK vs Intel Core i5-13450HX

Core i9-10980HK vs Core i5-13450HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13450HX is faster than the Core i9-10980HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10980HK in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13450HX has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i9-10980HK has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i9-10980HK and Core i5-13450HX are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i9-10980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13450HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10980HK. The Core i5-13450HX also has slightly 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 i9-10980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.