AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs Intel Core i5-12490F

Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs Core i5-12490F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D beats the Core i5-12490F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12490F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-12490F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12490F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12490F. Despite this, the Core i5-12490F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12490F outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800X3D 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 Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-12490F.

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 Ryzen 7 5800X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.