Intel Core i7-12700 vs Intel Core i5-12490F

Core i7-12700 vs Core i5-12490F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700 is faster than the Core i5-12490F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12490F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12700 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-12490F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12490F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12490F. Also, the Core i7-12700 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.

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 i7-12700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.