Intel Xeon W-11855M vs Intel Core i5-12450HX

Xeon W-11855M vs Core i5-12450HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon W-11855M 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 i5-12450HX has slightly more cores than the Xeon W-11855M. Indeed, the Core i5-12450HX has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon W-11855M. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon W-11855M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12450HX. Also, the Xeon W-11855M has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon W-11855M CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12450HX CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Xeon W-11855M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.