It is true that DDR5 is still scarce in stores and those that have stock are at a fairly high price. But as we saw last week, the price is going to drop shortly because manufacturers are doing everything to launch more units on the market and also DDR4 is already a real option in Core 12s with the new chipsets. So with this argument we bring you the best offer to date for the Intel Core i5-12400F.
Intel’s flagship CPU to overtake AMD
The truth is that we are talking about the mid-range of Intel, without iGPU and without features that mess us up when reading them, but this i5-12400F is fast, very fast, to the point that it competes with the 11 Gen i7 in performance per core and gaming, where it also equals the almighty Ryzen 5 5600X that until now reigned in the mid-range. In addition, it does so by not being its direct competitor by range and price (i5-12600K in this case).
Located the current panorama in processors, what do we have in front of us? So a processor 6 cores (all P-Cores, no E-Cores, i.e. “traditional” CPU) and 12 threads with a Base frequency of 2.5 GHz, which increases to the 4.4GHz in Boost or Turbo mode, as you prefer to say.
It has an L2 cache of 7.5 MB and an L3 of 18 MB in total, which together and knowing that it does not have an iGPU gives us a PBP of 65 watts (TDP is no longer used in Intel), with an MTP (Maximum Turbo Power) of 117 watts.
Memory, PCIe and added features
With this i5-12400F on offer we can buy either DDR4 or DDR5, since it supports both types of memory in maximum configurations without overclocking DDR5-4800 or DDR4-3200always with two channels of RAM in dual-channel, 128GB maximum memory and with a theoretical bandwidth of 76.8GB/s.
As sure we know the maximum version in PCIe is 5.0 (backwards compatible with the previous ones of course) and we will have available until 20 lines in total in a configuration of 1 x 16 + 1 x 4 or 2 x 8 +4, whichever we prefer. It is a CPU compatible only with the LGA1700 socket, its maximum temperature is 100º C in Tjunction and it has the best features added by Intel to date:
- Gaussian and Neural Accelerator 3.0
- DL Boost
- Optane
- Speed Shift
- hyper-threading
- VT-x
- VT-d
- EPT
- SSE 4.2 and AVX2
- SpeedStep
- SCV
This is not to mention security and reliability such as OS Guard, AES, Secure Key, Boot Guard and Control-Flow to name a few. And finally the best, the price, because this i5-12400F is on sale, falling from 192.95 euros to €184.95a discount of 4%.
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