Intel Core i5-12490F vs Intel Core i5-14600KF

Core i5-12490F vs Core i5-14600KF benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-14600KF 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-14600KF has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i5-12490F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12490F. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-14600KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12490F. In terms of cache, the Core i5-14600KF has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-12490F. The Core i5-14600KF also has slightly more 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.