Intel Core i5-12490F vs AMD FX-9800P

Core i5-12490F vs FX-9800P comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12490F beats the FX-9800P in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9800P in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12490F has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the FX-9800P has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-9800P. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12490F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-9800P. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-12490F has significantly more L2 cache than the FX-9800P

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-12490F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.