Intel Core i9-14900KS vs Intel Core i5-12450HX

Core i9-14900KS vs Core i5-12450HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900KS beats the Core i5-12450HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12450HX in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-14900KS has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12450HX. Indeed, the Core i9-14900KS has 24 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i5-12450HX. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12450HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-14900KS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12450HX. Also, the Core i9-14900KS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-14900KS has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-12450HX. The Core i9-14900KS also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Core i9-14900KS has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.