Intel Core i5-12490F vs Intel Core i7-14700HX

Core i5-12490F vs Core i7-14700HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700HX 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 i7-14700HX has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Core i5-12490F that 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 much higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700HX. Despite this, the Core i7-14700HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-14700HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-12490F. The Core i7-14700HX also has significantly 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.