Intel Core i5-12490F vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U

Core i5-12490F vs Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12490F performs better than the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U 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 PRO 7840U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12490F. Also, the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U 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 PRO 7840U.

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.