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."
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Early DDR5 adapter tax is rumored to be steep and AMD could really drop the hammer if they released an AM4+ socket that runs tri or dual channel while still being backwards compatible.
I really like the idea of a affordable and very asynchronous unlocked big LITTLE arrangement though where each could be adjusted and pushed heavily for a particular use case. It seems like it could offer a lot of value on a tight budget while also being quite efficient. You could get desired result without a lot of excess energy waste in many instances.
I look forward to more in depth analysis of big LITTLE approach because It'll defiantly continue to be used in the future even if it isn't perfect or ideal because there are still clear benefits to be had with it. Figuring out the best area's of improvement is what is needed for it's next generation of big LITTLE chips. AMD just needs to play it's ace card...
Quad channel
3D stacked memory
8C APU comparable to 5800G
RDNA2 based
Full TR PCIE 4.0 connectivity
Now if only that was the reason behind the delay...it would be worth the wait at long last.
At least AMD allow people to upgrade to a 5600x on their current board
But no, 2024 seems a stretch tbh. 2022H2, sure. The marketing also doesn't align with 2024 - they're speeding up as it is right now, probably working towards an announcement for a product announcement (as these things go nowadays...) to be released somewhere in the next 6 months. So yeah that's easily a year away, but if they take much longer, they've lost that momentum.
Unrelated to this, I hope now people understand that every competitor in this market is needed and good and stop hating on Intel, because now when AMD has got the top, they are starting to command big prices for their CPUs, as anyone would do, so I hope people have learned that AMD was selling those affordable puppies just because they were forced to do so.
We know historically Intel had trouble getting 10nm CPUs to higher frequencies. A way to get them there, is more power. We already have stacks where the 65W vs 95W CPUs exist, but we also know they can royally exceed that metric. It remains to be seen how artificial the segmentation here really is.
See Ryzen 5 5600G @$239, which comes with 3x the igp performance of the full-fat Rocket Lake (Core i5 11500)!
www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-5-5600g-ryzen-5-5000-g-series/p/N82E16819113683?item=N82E16819113683&source=region&nm_mc=knc-googleadwords-pc&cm_mmc=knc-googleadwords-pc-_-pla-_-processors+-+desktops-_-N82E16819113683&gclid=Cj0KCQjw5JSLBhCxARIsAHgO2Scpo8o5u1x2qY7nb4aTMKd9TtxdlsLhQeiK4jwt39RFD-BRpBJH510aAg2SEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
Comparably-specced motherboard:
www.amazon.com/GIGABYTE-B550M-AORUS-PRO-Motherboard/dp/B089FWXH3S/ref=asc_df_B089FWXH3S/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=459410835726&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5066910152280075462&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007849&hvtargid=pla-925433539094&psc=1
Because, if you have to pay at least $120 for a GT 1030 gddr5 to back that overpriced mess of a platform. Alder lake is expected to have the exact same castrated 32 EUs as Rocket Lake UHD 750!
Did I mention also that the stock cooler you get with Ryzen is good enough you don't have to spend the extra $40 on an overpriced Intel stock heat-sink replacement?
they are hyping this "empty benchmark win " because they know they have nothing else.
Intel doesn't have any problem hitting anything. That is how semiconductors work, power scales exponentially with voltage and frequency.
AMD also has this issue, but less so, because they had an IPC advantage so they afforded to use lower top frequencies on their highest end CPUs, while staying in a decent power level.
Intel...is choosing this strategy to give you absolute top performance if you don't care about power and this is ABSOLUTELY FINE.
So AMD being very power efficient is thanks to 2 main things:
- 7nm TSMC is better than Intel 10nm;
- AMD clocks their top CPUs lower, hence they are in a better efficiency spot;
As a matter of fact, you can read the 10900 CPU review here on techpowerup. You'll see that, because it is not clocked as high as K parts, its efficiency is very similar to Zen 2 parts.