Intel Core i5-9400 vs Intel Core i5-12490F

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3754 points

7213 points

92% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6091 points

10096 points

65% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3034 points

6311 points

108% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2911 points

6106 points

109% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5065 points

5956 points

17% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

78.76 points

160.34 points

103% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

3 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

4.6 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

480 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

7.5 MiB

400% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

9 MiB

20 MiB

122% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

455th of 1,089

177th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-9400 vs Core i5-12490F comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12490F is faster than the Core i5-9400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9400 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-12490F has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-12490F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-9400. Also, the Core i5-12490F has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-12490F has more L2 cache than the Core i5-9400. The Core i5-12490F also has significantly 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. For instance, the Core i5-9400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.