https://wccftech.com/china-exclusive-intel-core-i5-12490f-cpu-now-selling-at-207-usd-more-cache-faster-clocks/ > Earlier this year, Intel introduced its Core i5-12490F Alder Lake CPU exclusively for the Chinese DIY market. The 'Black Edition' CPU offered much higher clocks and increased cache compared to the Core i5-12400 but its pricing came close to the Core i5-12600KF at around $250-$260 US. Now, the chip has been adjusted to a much lower price. > The Intel Core i5-12490P is a special Alder Lake chip that's been designed and sold exclusively to China. It features the C0 die which is the same used by all hybrid chips except the 12490P comes without hybrid cores. It packs 6 Golden Cove cores and 12 threads. The CPU being an F variant is excluded from iGPU support so the Xe-LP graphics that you'd otherwise find on the non-F chips is not there.