AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X vs Intel Core i5-12490F

Ryzen Threadripper 1920X vs Core i5-12490F benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X performs better than the Core i5-12490F. Despite this, the Core i5-12490F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X 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 Threadripper 1920X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-12490F has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X. Despite this, the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-12490F.

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 Ryzen Threadripper 1920X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.