Intel Core i5-11600KF vs Intel Core i5-12490F

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6657 points

7213 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9464 points

10096 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5784 points

6311 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5598 points

6106 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6309 points

5% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

5956 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

151.30 points

160.34 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

30% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB

Identical

480 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

7.5 MiB

150% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

20 MiB

66% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

213th of 1,089

177th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-11600KF vs Core i5-12490F comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12490F performs better than the Core i5-11600KF. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11600KF in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11600KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12490F. Also, the Core i5-11600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12490F outputs less heat than Core i5-11600KF thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-12490F has more L2 cache than the Core i5-11600KF. The Core i5-12490F also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Core i5-11600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.