Intel Core i9-10900 vs Intel Core i5-12490F

Core i9-10900 vs Core i5-12490F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900 beats the Core i5-12490F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12490F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900 has significantly more cores with 10 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 i5-12490F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10900. Despite this, the Core i9-10900 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. In terms of cache, the Core i5-12490F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10900. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-10900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.