Intel Core i9-13980HX vs Intel Core i5-14450HX

Core i9-13980HX vs Core i5-14450HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-13980HX beats the Core i5-14450HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-14450HX in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-14450HX has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i9-13980HX that has 5 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13980HX. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-14450HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13980HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13980HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-13980HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-14450HX. The Core i9-13980HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-13980HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.