Intel Core i7-10700K vs Intel Core i5-12490F

Core i7-10700K vs Core i5-12490F specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12490F performs better than the Core i7-10700K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10700K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10700K has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-12490F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12490F. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-10700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12490F. Also, the Core i7-10700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12490F outputs less heat than Core i7-10700K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 i7-10700K. The Core i5-12490F also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i7-10700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.