Kinda expected more from all the fuss people were doing here and there. I don't see this CPU killing anything and the performance is not that overwhelmingly better to me from the hype people were giving. As it turns out it is not that great from what have been hyped. The price is competitive though but that's basically all.
Compared prices for the Mobo+CPU. The Intel counterpart leads by $30 less. People claim that AMD should lower the price for 5600x. If AMD does it, even by $30, Intel CPU loses whatever small advantage it has now.
I'd like to see the 5700G or 5600G comparison with this 12400F. Something tells me the 'G' series CPUs would have been close in performance to 12400f.
No, the G-series is about 10% slower. 5600X is only 1-2% faster and it produces more heat, uses a bit more energy.
Where I live cheapest B450 MB costs 70usd, 100usd for cheapest B550, cheapest B660 costs 140usd, 5600X costs 330usd and 12400f costs 220usd so the cheapest 12400F combo is 360usd, while cheapest 5600X combo is 400usd. The stock Intel cooler is superior to wraith stealth though as you lose 2-300MHz allcore speed using wraith due to temp lowering core clocks above 70C.
I own both and summarized:
12400F:
+More efficient
+more bang for bucks
+better stock cooler
+runs cooler
+faster in rendering like CB (5-10%)
5600X:
+better IMC, can usually run memory at 3733-4200 (i5 12400F does 3400-3800 max from what I've read so far) depending on binning
+a bit faster (5-10%) once fully tweaked due to curve optimizer, pbo and faster ram
+faster in zipping
