Intel Core i5-12490F vs AMD EPYC 7571

Core i5-12490F vs EPYC 7571 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the EPYC 7571 performs better than the Core i5-12490F. Despite this, the Core i5-12490F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the EPYC 7571 has significantly more cores with 32 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 i5-12490F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the EPYC 7571. The info from our database shows that the EPYC 7571 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-12490F. The EPYC 7571 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 i5-12490F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.