At the just-concluded CES conference, Intel finally launched the long-awaited entry, mainstream 12th generation Core and chipset of many small partners. Small partners who have certain requirements for performance and also care about wallets should focus on two models - i5-12400 and B660. What is this collocation, can it make everyone satisfied? Fortunately, there is a more comprehensive test just listed, let's take a look at it today.
The test platform uses RTX 3080 Ti graphics, and since the B660 motherboard is based on DDR4 memory, it is appropriate to compare the platforms to use dual channel 32GB DDR4 3200. The motherboard of the AMD platform is X570S, because the entire series of 12th generation Core has a large number of PCIe 5.0 channels, and the B660 also comes with PCIe 4.0 channels.
Whether it is from the pricing or positioning point of view, the opponent of the i5-12400 is obviously the Ryzen 5 5600X, let's focus on these two models. The first is daily application and professional design, theoretical calculation performance.
The single-threaded performance of the i5-12400 is significantly superior to that of the i5-12400, but the multi-threading capability is basically the same, and the design of the unified three-level cache of Ryzen is really good for multi-threading optimization. So, in a game that eats more single-core performance, how does the i5-12400 perform?
This time the performance of the two CPUs is closer, the frame rate of most games is within 5%, the total score difference is even only 1%, it can be said that it is basically a grade, it seems that the single-core ability of i5-12400 does not seem to play well in the current mainstream games. However, with reference to the current price, the cost performance of i5-12400 is still nothing to say, especially if you choose i5-12400F, even the price gap of the motherboard can be completely smoothed, it seems that the Ryzen 5 5600X is really not very fragrant.
In addition, the power consumption performance of i5-12400 is also quite good, Intel's power announced this time is also divided into two files as the frequency, of which the power consumption under the standard frequency is only 65W, the heat generation (TDP) is definitely lower than 65W, may be the same as the previous Celeron, etc. Only 58W or 52W, Turbo power consumption of 117W is probably the state of TDP 65W. It seems that with this CPU, you should not have to worry about the fan spinning, and you can even save some money on the fan power supply.