Intel Core i5-12490F vs Intel Core i5-13400F

Core i5-12490F vs Core i5-13400F benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13400F is faster than the Core i5-12490F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12490F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13400F has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-12490F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12490F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12490F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13400F. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-12490F has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13400F. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-12490F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.