Core i5-14450HX: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i5-14450HX is a 2024 14th-generation HX processor — the entry point into Intel's enthusiast laptop line, but with ten cores behind it. Eleven models in the catalog carry it, all of them gaming laptops, and the chip clears the recommended CPU requirement in 47 of the 69 games the catalog tracks. This guide covers where it sits among laptop CPUs, what it brings, and which laptops carry it.

Where the Core i5-14450HX sits in 2026

A catalog score of 57.5 places the chip 196th of 741 scored laptop CPUs — solidly mid-table. The neighborhood is a spread of eras: the Core 7 240H, Core i7-8850H and Xeon E3-1575M v5 just above, the Core i7-8559U and Core i7-12800H alongside, and the Ryzen 5 5500U just below. Sitting within a point of a 2022 twelve-core i7-12800H is a fair summary: strong modern multi-core hardware whose catalog score reflects the whole laptop-class field rather than its HX pedigree.

What the chip brings

Raptor Lake-HX Refresh gives the i5-14450HX 10 cores and 16 threads on a 7 nm-class process, with a 2.4 GHz base and up to 4.8 GHz boost under a 55 W HX rating. The hybrid core layout and the 55 W envelope are the point here — this is silicon meant to hold high clocks in a gaming chassis. The integrated graphics are an Intel Iris Xe G7 with 80 EUs, and the catalog holds a PassMark overall score of 23,814 for the chip.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 47 of 69 cataloged games — Metro Exodus, PUBG: Battlegrounds, Returnal, Black Myth Wukong, Ghost of Tsushima, The Last of Us Part 1 and Dying Light 2 among them. Another 20 titles sit at the minimum tier only, including Fortnite, Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3 and Counter-Strike 2. Starfield and Helldivers 2 are the only two that ask for more CPU than the chip offers at minimum settings. These verdicts are CPU-only — the laptop's GPU and RAM decide actual playability.

Laptops that carry it

The 11-model roster is pure gaming hardware: HP's Omen and Victus families (including the 2026 HyperX Omen 15 at $1,800 and the Victus 15 at $1,015), Acer's Nitro 17, Nitro V 16 and Predator Helios Neo 16, the ASUS TUF Gaming F16, and Lenovo's Legion Pro 5i Gen 9. Most cluster around $1,152 from 2024, spanning to $1,800 for the newest units. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: gaming index 82, engineering and modeling indices at 99, performance 84.5 — while portability sits at 24 and mobility at 34, the standard trade for gaming chassis. Notably, the laptops around it typically clear the recommended tier in all 69 tracked games, since their discrete GPUs carry titles where the CPU alone falls short.

Bottom line

The Core i5-14450HX suits a buyer who wants modern HX-class multi-core muscle without paying for the top i7/i9 bins. For gaming it clears the recommended CPU tier for most of the catalog, and the laptops built around it cover the rest with their GPUs. The honest caveats: a handful of the heaviest games want more processor at their recommended settings, and these are gaming-brick machines, not travel companions.