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The Core i3 and i5 outperform AMD: they spend less and are faster

All the CPUs shown are within the line of processors that will not have the overclocking capacity that the Intel K line of processors does, but this will not be a problem as such, since they are so balanced and they are so fast that it will not be necessary. They nonetheless represent the entry-level Core and the low-medium range with the expected i5-12400, which have the following key features:

  • i3-12100 -> 4 cores and 8 threads at 4.3 GHz with 12 MB of L3 (140 dollars or 110 dollars in version F)
  • i3-12300 -> 4 cores and 8 threads at 4.4 GHz with 12 MB of L3 ($ 150)
  • i5-12400 -> 6 cores and 12 threads at 4.4 GHz with 18 MB of L3 ($ 210 or $ 180 for the F variant)

All these processors have Golden Cove P-Cores, and therefore lack the E-Cores, that is, they are homogeneous and not heterogeneous traditional CPUs like the mid and high range of their brothers. Before entering the matter, we will really place ourselves, because although the i5-12400 does not compete with a natural rival but with the enemy of the i5-12600K, AMD does not have a CPU on the market to compete here, neither above nor below, like this that the Intel CPU would be at a disadvantage in range.

On the other hand, The i3s are going to be compared with the closest thing that can be found right now on the market: Ryzen 3 5350G, so the comparison is fairer despite being a pure APU (actually Intel CPUs are too. , but marketing is like that)

In addition to this, it must be taken into account that the Ryzen 5 5600X has PBO activated to achieve maximum performance, that is, it is not a standard configuration of series. Having clarified this, we go with the data.

Intel Core i3-12100, i3-12300 and i5-12400 in test

The chosen synthetic performance tests were CBR20, CBR23 and the 3DMark package with Time Spy, Fire Strike and CPU Score as cornerstones. What we can see here is that in the first, the i3 make a more than considerable difference with its rival, both in Single Core and Multi Core to the point that they seem of a superior range compared to this.

Against the competition between the two, since the performance is very even. This is something that we also see in CBR23 in the same way, since the distances are very similar in percentage terms. In the 3DMark package the differences between the two i3 and the Ryzen 3 5350G remain, but the GAP of the 12300 and 12100 disappears since the frequency of the cores barely manages to separate them logically.

CPU-Z shows a little more of the same as it is a pure CPU test: everything is very tight so that it rents in these terms, especially if we choose the i3-12100F version, which could be the revelation CPU of this beginning of 2022 .

The comparison of the i5-12400 vs Ryzen 5 5600X with PBO shows that the Intel CPU is on average between a 5% and 7% faster, which may not sound like much, but there are two key things to remember:

  • They do not belong to the same ranges.
  • The i5 is almost a 50% cheaper and it’s faster.

These percentages are with PBO, without it we would surely see differences close to 10%, which is even more interesting if possible.

Gaming performance

Here things get a bit twisted and vary from one side to the other. In the low range, with the two i3s, these are very solid compared to the AMD option and according to which titles the differences can be very wide, perhaps even too much. But in the mid-range everything changes.

The bumps come and go from one to another, where the i5-12400 is very tough to crack and does not make things easy for the Ryzen 5 5600X PBO. In some titles one wins and in another the rival, the problem here is AMD, since the i5 is much cheaper and does not compensate for the difference in performance the GAP that exists in price.

Consumption and temperatures

One of lime and another of sand. Although the Ryzen 3 5350G is less expensive than the two Intel i3s, it happens that that is not reflected in the temperatures, where both CPUs achieve an interesting degree difference in favor.

Instead, the fight between the i5 and the Ryzen 5 is quite uneven, mainly because the 5600X with PBO being slower in general terms consumes much more and is also much hotter with quite bad figures (86 degrees vs 58 degrees).

Conclusions of the i5-12400, i3-12300 and i3-12100

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Inte has not only taken a step forward, it could be said that the jump is between 1.5 and two steps in front of Rocket Lake. Alder Lake, in addition to being a much faster architecture, relies on the formerly named process of 10 nm and that has been noticed.

Currently Intel’s options are much more interesting than AMD’s in performance, price and temperature, especially in the low ranges, while in the middle they are more competitive and above all cheaper.

The highest number of CPUs in the Intel market and the performance shown make AMD is on the ropes and needs its update with 3D V-Cache for its processors, the problem is that although this improvement comes along with the last level optimization of the 7 nm process, it is speculated that the first of these improvements will only be implemented in the Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 9, so Intel would continue to dominate with an iron fist in the ranges that we have seen here today, which on the other hand are the that are sold the most.

We will also have to wait for the rest of the analysis worldwide to have a complete vision of the 12400, 12300 and 12100, but what is shown here today is very promising for the blue team.

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