Intel Core i5-12490F vs AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS

Core i5-12490F vs Ryzen 5 8645HS specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12490F is faster than the Ryzen 5 8645HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 8645HS in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8645HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12490F. Also, the Ryzen 5 8645HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8645HS outputs less heat than Core i5-12490F thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-12490F has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 8645HS. The Core i5-12490F also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.