Intel Core i5-12490F vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600

Core i5-12490F vs Ryzen 5 7600 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7600 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7600 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 7600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7600 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-12490F.

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.