Intel Core i5-13450HX

The Intel Core i5-13450HX is an upper-mid-range laptop processor of the Raptor Lake series. Is was announced in early 2023. The CPU integrates 6 fast Raptor Cove performance cores (P-cores) with Hyper-Threading and 4 Gracemont efficient cores without Hyper-Threading. Its P-Cores clock between 2.4 GHz (base) up to 4.6 GHz (single core boost, all-core 4.5 GHz). The smaller E-Cores clock between 1.8 and 3.4 GHz. All cores can access the combined 20 MB L3 cache (compared to 36 MB of the i9 models). There is no built-in TB or USB 4 controller here, and no dedicated NPU.

Compared to Alder Lake, Raptor Lake offers improved P-Cores, and more E-Cores (mostly the same Gracemont micro-architecture). Furthermore, the chips support faster DDR5 memory (up to 5600 MT/s for the 13980HX, but only 4800 MT/s for the i5 discussed).

CPU performance

Its multi-thread performance is close to AMD's Ryzen AI 7 350, Ryzen 7 H 255 / AMD Ryzen 7 255, Ryzen 7 H 260 / AMD Ryzen 7 260. While rather power-hungry, this CPU should make most gamers and content creators happy in 2026.

Results may vary depending on how competent the system's cooling solution is and how high the CPU power limits are.

GPU performance

A fairly basic first-generation Xe-architecture iGPU is onboard. It has no VVC encoding/decoding and no AV1 encoding support - decoding only; it will let you use several monitors with resolutions as high as SUHD 4320p, though.

Power consumption

The i5 chip's "base" power consumption is supposed to be set to about 55 W; several machines tested by Notebookcheck go far beyond that. Short-term power limit-wise, this tends to be set to far beyond 100 W, too, which is exactly what Intel recommends.

The 13450HX is built with Intel's 4th generation 10-nm process marketed as Intel 7 for fairly low, as of early 2026, energy efficiency.

Codename	Raptor Lake-HX
Series	Intel Raptor Lake-HX
Series: Raptor Lake-HX Raptor Lake-HX Intel Core i9-13980HX 1.6 - 5.6 GHz 24 / 32  36 MB L3 Intel Core i7-13850HX 1.5 - 5.3 GHz 20 / 28  30 MB L3 Intel Core i9-13900HX 1.6 - 5.4 GHz 24 / 32  36 MB L3 Intel Core i9-13950HX 1.6 - 5.5 GHz 24 / 32  36 MB L3 Intel Core i5-13600HX 1.9 - 4.8 GHz 14 / 20  24 MB L3 Intel Core i7-13650HX 1.9 - 4.9 GHz 14 / 20  24 MB L3 Intel Core i7-13700HX 1.5 - 5 GHz 16 / 24  30 MB L3 Intel Core i5-13500HX 1.8 - 4.7 GHz 14 / 20  24 MB L3 Intel Core i5-13450HX « 1.8 - 4.6 GHz 10 / 16  20 MB L3
Clock Rate	1800 - 4600 MHz
Level 3 Cache	20 MB
Number of Cores / Threads	10 / 16 6 x 4.6 GHz Intel Raptor Cove P-Core 4 x 3.4 GHz Intel Gracemont E-Core
Power Consumption (TDP = Thermal Design Power)	55 Watt
Manufacturing Technology	10 nm
Die Size	257 mm2
Max. Temperature	100 °C
Socket	BGA1964
Features	DDR4-3200/DDR5-4800 RAM, PCIe 5, Thr. Director, DL Boost, GNA, no NPU, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, EIST, TM1, TM2, HT, Turbo, SST, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA
GPU	Intel UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs ( - 1450 MHz)
64 Bit	64 Bit support
Architecture	x86
Announcement Date	01/04/2023
Product Link (external)	ark.intel.com

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