Best buy incoming: sub-US$200 Intel Core i5-12400F beats the Ryzen 5 5600X

[Redaktion]

For now, the i5-12600K is the value king, but, if you can wait for the i5-12400F releasing in two months, you could get roughly the same performance for sub-US$200.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Best-buy-incoming-sub-US-200-Intel-Core-i5-12400F-beats-the-Ryzen-5-5600X.577526.0.html

[neblogai]

For now, and for gaming- 12600KF is a worse deal than 5600X. Same gaming performance, but cheapest Z690 motherboards start at ~€200, while decent quality B550 are from €100, so a 12600KF DDR4 system costs at least €100 more. Only when cheap motherboards for the 12600KF arrive it might become a better deal (if AMD does not change the pricing of their CPUs).

[Kublai]

For now, and for gaming- 12600KF is a worse deal than 5600X. Same gaming performance, but cheapest Z690 motherboards start at ~€200, while decent quality B550 are from €100, so a 12600KF DDR4 system costs at least €100 more. Only when cheap motherboards for the 12600KF arrive it might become a better deal (if AMD does not change the pricing of their CPUs).

12600KF is a much better gaming CPU than 5600X and obliterates it in multi threaded workload. But I agree that in higher resolution monitors and low performing GPUs you may not see much difference because in that situation the fps will be GPU bound. But if value gaming is the only thing you care then 11400F or may be even 10th gen i5 is a far better deal for you. These options have a much lower price than 5600X with same gaming perf.

[neblogai]

In Jarrod's Tech testing, 10 games average, there was a 0,8% difference in gaming at 1080p (with RTX3090,and DDR5 5200 for the 12600KF), 2.4% at 1440p, and 0.6% at 4K. Which is basically no difference, and certainly not worth the extra motherboard cost for a normal gamer.
But at this point- I would recommend everyone wanting a budget gaming system, to wait a few months for significantly cheaper chipsets, and probably even for the new 12400-12600 CPUs. As well as AMD's new V-cache CPUs, plus,very likely a drop in prices of their current lineup chips.