Monday, October 11th 2021
Intel Core i5-12400 Could be the Next Price-Performance King, Beats Ryzen 5 5600X in Leaked Benchmarks
Intel's upcoming Core i5-12400 "Alder Lake-S" processor could be an interesting piece of silicon. Apparently, not all 12th Gen Core i5 desktop chips have the same core-configuration. While the top Core i5-12600K is expected to have six "Golden Cove" P cores and four "Gracemont" E-cores, some of the lower variants, such as the i5-12400, will lack E cores, and be pure P core chips. In this case, the chip is 6-core/12-thread with just P cores; 1.25 MB of dedicated L2 cache per core, and 18 MB of shared L3 cache. You'll probably get all the next-gen I/O, including PCI-Express Gen 5 (PEG slot), a PCI-Express Gen 4 CPU-attached NVMe slot, and DDR5+DDR4 memory.
Given that the Core i5-11400 is a $190 part, even with a 10-15% price hike, the i5-12400 is expected to be under $220. The only drawbacks here are expected to be locked BClk multiplier, and rather low clock speeds of 4.00 GHz. A user on Chinese social media posted alleged Cinebench R20 results of the i5-12400. It scores 659 points in the single-threaded test, and 4784 points in the multi-threaded test. Wccftech tabulated this against known performance numbers of popular chips, and found that the i5-12400 might end up slightly ahead of the Ryzen 5 5600X, a currently-$300 part. The table also puts out leaked i9-12900K numbers, which indicate why AMD is rushing with "Zen 3+" with 3D Vertical Cache, instead of next-gen "Zen 4."
Sources:
热心市民描边怪 (bilibili), WCCFTech, HXL (Twitter), VideoCardz
Given that the Core i5-11400 is a $190 part, even with a 10-15% price hike, the i5-12400 is expected to be under $220. The only drawbacks here are expected to be locked BClk multiplier, and rather low clock speeds of 4.00 GHz. A user on Chinese social media posted alleged Cinebench R20 results of the i5-12400. It scores 659 points in the single-threaded test, and 4784 points in the multi-threaded test. Wccftech tabulated this against known performance numbers of popular chips, and found that the i5-12400 might end up slightly ahead of the Ryzen 5 5600X, a currently-$300 part. The table also puts out leaked i9-12900K numbers, which indicate why AMD is rushing with "Zen 3+" with 3D Vertical Cache, instead of next-gen "Zen 4."
69 Comments on Intel Core i5-12400 Could be the Next Price-Performance King, Beats Ryzen 5 5600X in Leaked Benchmarks
:rolleyes::wtf::sleep:
9900K..Once king of the hill, now heading rapidly to the back of the bus, old friend...
On the i5 12400, when most users are now in almost 5 ghz territory. Going back to 4 ghz.... I'm well aware frequency is not everything but still it holds some psychological weight. I'm sure it is a great cpu though those non k versions always were.
So your P cores in an i5 are at least 20% worse than the P cores in an i9. Encouraging. Or those E cores are doing some hefty cheating along the way.
Either way, this is a very unusual stack of CPUs that warrants careful analysis. Each part is going to be radically different apparently. OR, the product segmentation is 100% artificial, but somehow, I have some doubts there ;)
Wait for proper benchmarks ...
Interesting numbers coming from that benchmark anyway, competition can only be good for the consumers.
It will be hard to realize a 2022 cpu doesn't overcome a 6700k from 2015 in 99% of the games.
Anyway, speculation might have set some expectations half a year ago. Today, we just have to wait for 3 more weeks and read the reviews. Speculating is pretty pointless at this point.
That being said, I think it would have been in all our interests with respect to preserving competition in the long term, if AMD had another 3-5 years of dominance in order to increase market penetration (especially in the most lucrative x86 markets, mobile, though I'm sure Intel used their influence to ensure AMD didn't have access to the top tier models for laptops until the last year or so, and enterprise where I'm sure Intel sold chips at cost to hinder AMD's access), annual revenue and to build up their financial reserves. "Enthusiasts" are so fickle (and many probably even never tried AMD despite being the better product due to their.... Loyalties) that I'm sure just two consecutive generations of AMD not outperforming Intel by 15%+ could easily rollback any gains... And if AMD is just on par or even slightly behind, it'd be even worse. I don't think people realize how crucial the last few years and next 3-5 years are for ensuring that AMD remains a viable competitor in the x86 market... If things go bad, I could easily see AMD retreating from consumer x86, focusing on semi-custom, trimming the fat and calling it a day all in the interest of ensuring profitability.
All I'm saying is, I think it's a lot easier than people imagine for us to slide right back into the early to mid-2010s of complete innovative stagnation, 4% gen-over-gen performance increases, and unjustifiably high prices for mid to top tier CPUs... As Intel has proven in the past that they'll immediately slam the brakes on progress unless a proverbial gun is pressed against their head.
Only Intel can find a way to make their new Core i5 processors even slower at iGPU than it's old HD 630!
[personal opinion space]
also a locked 12400 beating a 5600X on price perf value? well if the gap is in double digit and noticeable in daily usage ... yeah sure ...
5600 is ~230$ for me atm 5600X is ~285$ given a choice even a 5600G would be just as good as that 12400 if IGP is needed at ~275$
(obviously given that i have an AM4 board, if i still had my 6600K and would need, indeed, a total platform overhaul, i might have thought differently, but then AM5 and next Ryzen is also on the way ... )
although i reckon the score is quite impressive against my 3600 (stock, got free but value paid by the generous donator was 185 chf ) MC 3412/SC 478 (again i wonder if it would translate with a huge gape in my daily use)
nonetheless i am glad Intel is not sitting on their thumbs ... but i kinda find their current attitude childish (not referencing leak, but rather their PR )
i think it was enginering sample but "golden chips" will able give for everyday work in windows with some aio 360 cooler about 800-900 points,, of course will not possible run all cores on 100%... but on that multicore software work i have 2990WX... )) old and unsupoorted from amd...
soo i see nearly all programs in my win run on max 1-2 cores,,,, more cores need only if you do x265.. AI go best on nvidia
thast why i go to intel....and some fast pcie-5 nvme
5600G vs 5600X is an interesting dynamic. In my experience the frequencies end up pretty much the same but where cache matters, 5600X is measurably faster. That includes games.
Edit: My 5600G Cinebench R20 results are 21-22% lower.