Intel’s Budget 14th Gen Core i5-14450HX Laptop CPU With 10 Cores & 4.8 GHz Clocks Spotted

wccftech.com:

Intel's 14th Gen Core i5-14450HX laptop CPU has been spotted in a Geekbench leak and will serve as an entry-level SKU within the Raptor Lake refresh family.

So far, we have known at least four 14th Gen Raptor Lake-HX Refresh CPUs that will target the gaming laptop segment. These CPUs are purely designed for gaming purposes but can also be used for great productivity and content creation uses. The HX lineup is the alternative to Intel's Meteor Lake CPUs which target the mainstream and low-power platforms with only a few SKUs getting the proper gaming treatment. The 14th Gen HX lineup will offer more cores and higher clock speeds with more premium cooling solutions and discrete graphics support. They do not include an AI NPU like Meteor Lake but gaming doesn't benefit from such cores anyway (as of yet).

Coming to the specifications for the Intel Core i5-14450HX CPU, we are looking at a 10-core chip (6 P-Cores + 4 E-Cores), featuring a base clock of 2.6 GHz and a boost clock of up to 4.8 GHz. The chip comes with 20 MB of L3 cache and was configured within a Colorful M15 (2024) laptop. This laptop also features 16 GB of DDR5-5600 memory and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 discrete GPU.

There is an onboard iGPU but that only features 32 Execution Units based on the older Xe graphics architecture. The new Xe-LPG architecture already provides a monumental leap for Intel's iGPUs but so far Intel has no plans to bring those high-end iGPUs to its high-end HX lineup. That might change in the future as AMD's Strix Point will come in premium SKUs supporting higher core count and bigger GPUs onboard the same chip.

Since the Intel Core i5-14450HX CPU only offers a 200 MHz increase over the Core i5-13450HX, the performance is mostly the same and