Intel has optimized its lineup to better compete with AMD’s Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 “Zen 4” CPUs at very competitive prices. This is shown by the announcement of the oddly titled Core i5-13490F desktop processor SKU in the Chinese market. In between the i5-13400F and the i5-13500 is the i5-13490F. It features the same 6P+4E core configuration as the i5-13400F rather than the i5-6P+8E 13500’s design, although it has a bigger shared L3 cache of 24 MB as opposed to the i5-20 13400F’s MB. The E-core clusters each only receive 2 MB of shared L2 cache, and the P-cores continue to only receive 1.25 MB of L2 cache per core. It lacks integrated graphics because it is a “F” SKU. The P-cores’ highest boost frequency according to the clock rates is 4.70 GHz (compared to 4.60 GHz of the i5-13400F). A brief CPU-Z Bench test revealed that the processor performed about 6% better single-threadedly than the i5-13400F and 4.5% better multi-threadedly.