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

Core i9-10900X vs Core i5-12490F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12490F beats the Core i9-10900X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10900X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900X 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 i9-10900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12490F. Despite this, the Core i5-12490F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12490F outputs less heat than Core i9-10900X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 i9-10900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.