AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS vs Intel Core i5-12490F

Ryzen 9 6900HS vs Core i5-12490F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 6900HS beats the Core i5-12490F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12490F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has slightly more cores than the Core i5-12490F. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12490F. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12490F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12490F. Also, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 6900HS CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12490F CPU because of its 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 9 6900HS. 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 Ryzen 9 6900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.