Intel Core i5-12490F vs AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H

Core i5-12490F vs Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12490F is faster than the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H 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 9 PRO 6950H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12490F. Also, the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H 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 significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. The Core i5-12490F also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-12490F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.