Intel Core i9-11950H vs Intel Core i5-12450H

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i9 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

6449 points

22% slightly better overall score

5248 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8487 points

8% slightly better gaming score

7843 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5818 points

29% slightly better multitasking score

4484 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5677 points

31% slightly better heavy workload score

4327 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

153.40 points

35% slightly higher Blender score

113.50 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

13113 points

43% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

9134 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

30% slightly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

Identical

45 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40% slightly 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

768 KiB

20% slightly more L1 cache

640 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

223rd of 1,089

318th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i9

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-11950H vs Core i5-12450H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-11950H performs better than the Core i5-12450H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12450H in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i9-11950H has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-11950H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12450H. Also, the Core i9-11950H has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i9-11950H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.