The Intel Core i5-12490F processor, presented separately from the global announcement of the low-end Alder Lake-S chips exclusively for China, in the first tests showed performance up to 15% higher than the Core i5-12400F. True, so far only in one Geekbench benchmark. Intel did not send samples of the Core i5-12490F chip for testing to specialized publications. The novelty immediately appeared on the Chinese marketplace JD.com. Only the boxed version of the processor is available for sale, the packaging of which differs in design from the rest of the Alder Lake-S series models. She is black, not blue. At the…