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I5-12400F knocks out previous i9 and latest Ryzen 5 on CPU-Z

How is it possible that an i5 surpasses the previous top of the range of the same manufacturer and a single core? Well, almost everyone knows the explanation: an improvement in frequency plus a very interesting increase in the CPI. But is that Intel was behind in this regard and often made up for it simply. The problem is when your new CPU knocks out the rival’s and above all at a price that is supposed to be lower, what has Intel achieved?

Intel Core i5-12400F, CPU-Z performance

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The competition has a problem when it comes to comparing the best of you against the processor supposedly with the highest sales projection and seeing that you lose by a landslide. It is true that the mono core is not everything, but in a sector such as gaming it is a more than important factor since although it has improved in the game engines in terms of distribution and allocation of resources for multi-core, in one of them always loads more than the rest.

We can see this in stress software for example, where a core always receives more load than the rest and takes more temperature, something that is much more appreciated with overclocking. Therefore, the 704 points of the i5-12400F in CPU-Z are something difficult to digest for AMD, since it endorses nothing less than a 11.11% to the Ryzen 5 5600X, current rival in the market and one of the best-selling CPUs of this year.

Unrivaled at AMD?

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The score is not surprising because of the figure itself, but because a CPU of just 200 euros (presumably) is above all the Intel 11 generation and any AMD processor. And yes, we are talking about a core, but in multi Core things are not as different as you might expect.

It scores no less than 4,988 points, which would place it right on the same level as the Ryzen 7 5800X (4,994 points) and ahead of its maximum rival so far and range with a difference already smaller than 3.55% against the Ryzen 5 5600X. That is, we would be talking about the king of performance in 12 threads currently with a very even performance compared to 16 threads of the current generations logically saving the Core 12.

It is true that this victory can be momentary and ephemeral if after CES 2022 AMD presents its Ryzen 6000 with V-Cache, which could equalize the balance. The problem comes more from prices, since Intel is lowering theirs to guarantee sales before departure, as we could well see yesterday, and we must bear in mind that we are talking about processors that will exceed 200 euros hopefully and they’re beating up the full lineup from AMD and the older one from Intel.

So we are finally seeing steps forward in this sector, which had lagged behind in performance increases versus GPUs, which is a ray of hope for the future.

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