Intel Slashes Core i5-12490F Price To Around $200 In China

Intel has quietly reduced the price of its Core i5-12490F processor, which is exclusively available in China. While we do not typically care about regional price cuts, this price cut may be noteworthy as it may signal several things that may be important globally.

The Intel Core i5-12490F is essentially a byproduct of other Alder Lakes’s binning. The processor is a six-core, 12-thread chip with a base and boost clock of 3.0 GHz and 4.6 GHz and a 20MB L3 cache. While these specs are identical to the Intel Core i5-12500, the Core i5-12490F one has a larger (by 2MB) cache and lacks integrated graphics.

Anton Shilov
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Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.

  • spentshells
    This appears to be the perfect gaming chip... Lets go with the north american launch. This on b660 with 3733Mhz memory tuned up past 4000Mhz would be a great setup.
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  • Co BIY
    Seems like a price reduction to the standard line of the Alder Lake chips in general . I doubt it symbolizes anything other than that the Chinese market is not interested in overpaying for Chinese exclusives and "black-out" marketing anymore than other markets.
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