How is it possible that an i5 outperforms the previous high-end from the same manufacturer and only one core? Well, almost everyone knows the explanation: an improvement in frequency plus a very interesting increase in CPI. But did Intel lag behind in this regard and often just catching up. The problem is, when your new CPU beats the rival and most importantly at a supposedly lower price tag, what has Intel achieved?
Intel Core i5-12400F, CPU-Z performance
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 you lose by a landslide. It is true that the single core is not everything, but in a sector like 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 the multi-core, in one of them always loads more than the others.
We can see this in stress software for example, where one core always receives more load than the rest and takes more temperature, which is much more appreciated with overclocking. Therefore, the 704 points of the i5-12400F in CPU-Z are something difficult for AMD to digest, 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 processors of this year.
Unmatched at AMD?
The score is not surprising because of the number itself, but because a CPU at just 200 dollars (presumably) is primarily the Intel 11 generation and any AMD processor. And yes, we’re talking about a core, but in multi-core things aren’t as different as you might expect.
It scores no less than 4,988 points, which would put it on par with the Ryzen 7 5800X (4,994 points) and ahead of its maximum rival so far and a range with a difference already less than 3.55% against the Ryzen 5 5600X. That is to say that we would speak of the king of performance in 12 threads currently with very homogeneous performance compared to the 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 level the balance. The problem comes more from the prices, since Intel is lowering its prices to guarantee sales before departure, as we saw yesterday, and we must keep in mind that we are talking about processors that will exceed 200 dollars Hopefully they beat AMD’s full lineup and Intel’s old one.
We are therefore finally witnessing progress in this sector, which had fallen behind in increasing performance compared to GPUs, which is a glimmer of hope for the future.
