Intel Core i5-12490F vs AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

Core i5-12490F vs Ryzen 7 8845HS comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12490F beats the Ryzen 7 8845HS in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 8845HS in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 8845HS has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-12490F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12490F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8845HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12490F. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 8845HS has more L2 cache than the Core i5-12490F. Despite this, the Core i5-12490F has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 8845HS.

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.