Intel Core i5-12490F vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D

Core i5-12490F vs Ryzen 5 7500X3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D beats the Core i5-12490F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12490F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12490F. In terms of cache, the Core i5-12490F has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-12490F.

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.