@@Dexiefy Wasn’t there a rumor that mining collapses later this first quarter of 2022? In any case, whether it happens next month or next year, we are in a bubble that once it crashes, gpu prices will drop drastically down, even with new gpus because manufacturers will have a harder time selling people on new products
Good job, Intel! I just got my 12400F and I'm happy so far, although I have some trouble running the 3600MHz memory at advertised speeds. The 12100F seems like a decent cheap-o alternative that can fit well with most people's budgets. Personally though, I think it's best to get the extra two cores if you can. AMD needs to step up their game if they want to compete against this amazing value.
Try gear 2, or buy a slower kit with aggressive timings. I learned that a 3200 CL14 memory is faster and more stable for my system than 3600 CL16 memory. Even though technically 3600 gear 1 *works*, it's not 100 per cent and I've had a DDR4-3600 kit failing in the past in gear 1 mode, even though the kit was QVL for the motherboard. I think that when you are pushing the memory controller to effectively 1800 MHz speeds, you are basically overclocking it, and you are not guaranteed to get gear 1 stable.
@@Jimster481 we even have them where I live (in a forgotten Eastern european country). AMD only has the 2200g in the price range. We also have boards around $115. All taxes included.
My daughter built her first PC using a 10100 w/ a RX570...served her well for a year and recently upgraded to a 2700x/X470 for streaming. I kept the 10100 and use it as a media center PC and love it! I do want to jump on the 12th gen train eventually, but like you said Steve...boards need to come down in price a little bit. Even 500 series B and H boards are over priced ATM.
People on Reddit get super super mad when I recommend the i3 12100 to people because "In actual modern games, 4 core CPUs are totally worthless, even 6-core CPUs are being phased out". When I show them benchmarks like this it's always "Worthless test, old games, old game engines", but when I ask for any gaming benchmarks showing where the 12100 sucks, I still haven't got a single link. So weird...
Especially considering that the differences only show if you pair it with enthusiast-level GPUs. Pair it with a more reasonable GPU and it'll be on par with the beefiest 12-cores since you're GPU-bound anyway...
Let's just hope no more CP2077's release, since that's the only game so far where the 12100(F) was slightly less impressive (but absolutely doesn't suck!).
What do you expect from trash website full of circlejerk garbage people aka Reddit. Even i already deleted my account 2 years ago and i don't miss those trash old shitty website.
I just realized H610 actually supports 3200 mhz. If your RAM is already 3200 cl16, is there even any benefit with B660? Especially for 12100f and 12400f Edit: The only thing I saw that matters is pcie 4.0 m.2 slot, the rest looks to be the same
Only having 2 memory slots could be an issue if you want an easy upgrade path for memory in the future (by just adding 2 more modules) and dual rank memory, that you always get when using 4 modules, often performs better than single rank memory. Other than that it's other features such as more fan headers, RGB connectors, internal USB, number of SATA ports etc. that often gets upgraded on more expensive boards. All this varies from board to board though, so sometimes an expensive B660 can have more features than a "cheap" Z690 for example (though the B660 will never support k-chip OC).
@@MrMeanh wait, using 4 single rank memory equals dual rank? I didn't know that before any source? I always thought that 4 ram sticks vs 2 ram sticks only affects performance marginally
@@nathantheodorus That may be, be cpuz doesn't see it that way, just added 2 more sticks of 3600 CL16 and over clocked it to 3732, but cpuz still sees it as single rank.
@@Dryloch I already did it back in December. My 12700K @4.9GHz with e-cores and HT off and cache @4.7GHz scores about 5700MT and 730ST in CB20 using MSI Z690-A PRO DDR4 and 32GB of 3800C16 memory . I disabled E-cores and HT since i don't need more than 8 threads and want max single performance since i mostly play older games. For reference about 120W (@65-67C using NH-D15S) in CB20 and about 150W (@73-77C) in Y-cruncher. Still not finetuned Vcore so may be i can lower the temps and power consumption, currently VCore is 1.2V.
£200 b660+£130 core i3 £82.5/core £200 b660+£180 core i5 £63.3/core (and 50% more cache and you'll not need to upgrade for longer). I3 is a false economy. Its like IF they released a super fast overclocksble 2c4t pentium for $40! its faster in gaming but for "reasons" required a $400 z690 board. Yeah the chip is cheap.....how many people get a free motherboard? If you're buying a motherboard aswell factor that in to the total cost. Suddenly 50%more cores and cache for 15% more money seems like better value. Thats before people that are building a whole new system with case and psu and SSDs and coolers etc. £850 i5 6core £800 i3 4core Which would you buy?
@@tomstech4390 Flawed logic - H610 boards exist and will bring down the cost per core as if only an i3 is within budget, you are more likely to go for a cheaper board, PSU, drives, etc. Less likely to pair an i5 with equally priced components if you have the budget headroom. Also, you can see here that the performance difference between the 4 and 6 core Intel chips is minimal, so you are still paying more for a smaller gain.
@@petkogeorgiev2103 I'd definitely pair it with 16GB if you do more than light office work, for light workstation use even 32GB and then a H670 or B660 Board, the H610 is just really not worth the savings.
Yep, got 1 on order, was going to buy f part but 12100 was listed as same price, it has the uhd 730 , same igpu as i5 11400, so should be ok for office stuff...
@@Jimster481 um, well, funny you should ask....a shop had them listed, the i3 12100f was advertised and in stock then noticed the price was the same for i3 12100 , so purchased that , not realising it wasn't in stock , stock due 23rd Feb... so.... I've paid for it but have to wait another 3 weeks for stock to arrive.... so not that worried but should have checked stock level.....my bad....
12400 and 12100 performance is so encouraging for budget builds right now. Just waiting on reviews of B660 boards now. Seems like these are taking a lot longer to get out than the last couple of review cycles :(
@@ihebmhamdi3451 Have you seen the H610 mobas from the major manufacturers? For the ~$30 difference for a low end B660, I'll take the extra IO and symbolic VRM heatsinks. If I was desperate enough to game on any CPU, I might consider putting an i3 in one of those boards, but the 12400 has been shown to be powerful enough to handle anything gaming, except for the highest resolutions.
@@ericepperson8409 H610M boards can even handle a 12700 that turbo boosts up to 180watts, the community gives H610 boards shit but they are the best value boards and have all the expansion you really need.
Yeah, I chose a 12400F, as I want the PC to last 6+ years (upgrading an 8 year old i5 3470@4GHz now), with a mid-life upgrade of GPU and PCIe 4.0 SSD only. But the 12100F is great money saver if it is to be used just for lighter e-sports, or if the plan is to upgrade the CPU in a few years (needs careful choice of motherboard though, as many cheaper B660 will not be able to make full use of high TDP SKUs. For example, B660 DS3H works perfectly fine with 12400F, but not with 12700K).
Idk your guys regional pricing, but 12400f+cheapest ATX board (like ASUS b660 prime) costs roughly the same as Ryzen 5 5600x + MSI b450 Tomahawk max II for me. I would call 12400f a terrible value because of it. All you get is pcie 4.0, but then you can just spend tiny bit more and just get b550 board and you are golden. As for 12100f, i just got (literally yesterday) 11400f setup with MSI tomahawk b560 for about 10% more than 12100f with garbage MB would cost me. That leaves me with 11700k upgrade potentially (expecting them to quickly lose value) like next year or so, or entire platform swap to a new AMD with DDR5 after prices stabilize.
Depends on your usage. But if you compare this i3 with a budget tier VGA (instead of rx 6900 XT in the review) you could notice tiny difference in fps.
@@christophermullins7163 That would require buying a motherboard with great VRMs now (extra cost), and would still cost more to upgrade (CPU + cooler), than just buying a 12400F now. In that case, it is probably better to buy a 12100F + H610 once they get cheap in a few months, and in a few years time to sell it, and upgrade it to a whole new DDR5, PCIe 5.0 system, available for budget configurations then. But as I'm buying the PC for not very PC-literate gamer, who just wants it to work without much changes and little extra cost for many years, the six-core 12400F+B660 as a PCI-e 4.0 platform is stable, cool, and should be perfectly sufficient.
True, but next gen will be happening at the end of this year, where supply constraints should be mostly resolved. The price/performance of Alder Lake will be cap on how high pricing can go for _both_ companies' products, because reviewers like Hardware Unboxed will say "just buy a 12100" if the value isn't there.
@@innocentiuslacrim2290 And by the reveals, Intel domination will span next year as well, Raptor Lake vs 7000 series being a win for Raptor Lake, although AMD will take the gaming crown back with the 3D series for the 5000 and 4D for the 7000.
This is shocking to see. Here I thought my 7700k running at 5ghz was still top tier in terms of average performance across the board, but with this i3 revelation, in theory it completely beats it out of the water. This really goes to show how competitive Intel has become with 12th gen. Gonna have to think it over for the next few days whether I upgrade...
I love to see AMD & Intel going at it again. I'm sat here with a R5 3600 thinking that the performance doesn't look that good for the Ryzen but then realising that I am going to be GPU limited in every single game and unwilling to pay the current prices to get anywhere near the 6900 XT
@@randomguydoes2901 You can sell your 3600, that is what I did one month later than the 5600X launched. It costed me $118. The best purchase I ever done.
@@illogical1421 I don't think AMD will do that, because they don't need to. Zen 4 will have much higher IPC and clock speed, so the Ryzen 3 7100 should beat the 12100 and get close to the performance of a 5600X on 4 cores anyway, as long as it has enough cache. Maybe we'll see a core-count increase for Zen 5 or for a Zen 4 refresh though. There's a very real chance that the top Zen 4 CPUs will hit 6GHz (on 1 core) if AMD decides to push the silicon to its limits.
Intel should offer bundles CPU+MOBO+ARC GPU for discount. They can take gpu and cpu marketshare and still make great money. We cut shipping cost and get a discount.
Thanks Steve, great content piece! Definitely interesting to see how it fares with an H610 though, as that should be the real budget go-to. If it fares almost as well there, I think on the budget side it's just a crazy win for Intel (who would've though?!)
It is so weird feeling this deja vu that Intel is basically pulling an AMD when 3600 was released and combo-ing it with a B450/B550 board and DDR4 and boom, great price performance value.
@Novem's Natural Roll Funny thing is, AM4 is a dead-end platform at the moment, while Intel always supports 2 generations of CPU per, so technically Intel's has a better upgrade path. Funny how that works.
@Novem's Natural Roll amd tried to back away from their initial promises, and were basically forced to be nice by the extreme backlash to offering support for ryzen 5000 only on x570 and b550 chipsets. X370 was completely left in the dust and basically had 3 generations of support as opposed to 2 offered by Intel. That there are now some boards getting bios updates to support 5000 shows that it was possible all along, they just decided they can get away with that bait and switch. And no, excuses like "well they said socket am4 itself will be supported and it is, they never claimed the original chipsets will support all 4 generations planned for the platform". No, this is like saying LGA 1151 had 4 years of support, even if the CPUs were not compatible with older boards.
@@Jimster481 If you buy B450 or B550 right now to build a new machine and expect future upgrades, you must be kinda special. It is end of the road, there will be no more CPUs for it, what you see right now is what you get. You only buy AMD right now if you are satisfied with what you are getting (maybe some clearance or special deal) and do NOT expect to upgrade. Last I checked there are cheaper Z boards, I saw a Gigabyte Z690M DS3H and some Asrock Z board for around 160€ yesterday, which is what I paid for my B550. I don't know if they are any good but seems like a good price to me if you want the option to upgrade later to some 13400 or 13600. Should be fine for an i5 at least. Maybe even 12600K. Or just get a H610 and make AMD's proposition obsolete. I am sorry, I was an AMD supporter when Zen first lauched but at the moment they are what Intel was back then or worse. So right now Intel is the better offer and unless AMD gets back to reality, my next rig will be Intel, regardless if AM5 is good or not. I do not like being made a fool.
@Novem's Natural Roll What Haralampi said. X370 was a scam, B450 was almost a scam, too. If it wasn't for the outrage back then, we'd be buying a new mobo every 2 CPU gens. Surprize, surprize - just like Intel. And now they are teasing support for Zen3 on X370, yet I have not seen a new BIOS for any of the boards that I use, so at the moment it is vaporware, sweet words to make you wait and not buy Intel. AMD are lying through their teeth at the moment and not responding in any way - be it a new CPU or lower prices - to Alder Lake, like if they have the upper hand. They don't. The more they wait, the more people on their platform they lose to Intel.
this is super impressive that a 4 core part is trading blows with 6 and 8 core parts. very exciting times ahead to see competition in the cpu space! can't wait to see how amd and Intel compete going forward. so far it looks like price creep isn't happening as dramatically as gpus
Because they want people to buy THEIR CPUs, they most likely undersell them a bit to make them more appealing to buy. Anyway I think Ryzen 7th gen will put AMD pretty far up ahead of Intel again..
@@michakrzyzanowski8554 Jajajaja you see News. Ryzen 7000 Finally at 2022, and Second AMD doesn't has Gens anymore only series. Ryzen Series 4000 For Laptops and APUs for OEM Marcket. Ryzen Series 5000 at Final of 2020. Now beginings Of 2022 Ryzen Series 6000 for Laptops and APUs with New Graphics RDNA 2. Final Of year Ryzen Series 7000. Dude AMD not Gens, not anymore only series
It's not really hard to beat AMD at this point, they are not even trying anymore. They did not even bother to release a budget CPU in the Ryzen 5000 lineup lol
@@GATERISTIC sry I wanted to say 5600x I'll edit the comment and yes 5600x cost for around 21k rupees in india with all taxes included so if i convert it into USD it be around 250-260 USD for you
Impressive performance given the price. AMD are going to have to release something fairly special to compete with Intel at the entry level of the market.
AMD just have to get off their high horse and lower the prices. 3600 to this day costs MORE than what I paid for it at the day of release. 5600G and 5700G are overpriced - AMD APUs were always a bit cheaper than their CPU counterpart, look at 4600G and 4750G, which *by the way* misteriously disappeared. And 5600X is just plain stupid expensive for what it is. They are banking on the fact a lot of us are on the Bx50/Xx70 platform already and a drop in upgrade is technically cheaper than swtiching to Intel and buying a mobo+CPU. That said it is a gut punch to the consumer and I will not upgrade until 5600X is 200$ or less. Or get tired of waiting and just switch to Intel, if my 3600 is no longer up to par (which it is slowly showing signs of, but still adequate). F that, I am not getting milked. Somehow I get the feeling my next CPU will be 12600K, though, as once you get high on your own farts as AMD has, it is hard to come back to reality...
@@tusux2949 Yeah, AMD has abandoned value and it's the reason I didn't get a 5000 series CPU like I was planning. Oh well, I will continue to wait until something looks particularly good.
Yep, AMD products have gone too far in price. A 3600 for a similar price as a 12400? And I won't even bother commenting on the very high prices of AMD motherboards compared to intel equivalents. And you also have to buy high speed ram for AMD otherwise you will cripple CPU speeds severely if using an AMD cpu. AMD is bad value.
Would be nice to see B660 come down just a bit more for the decent motherboards. Although not a bad value, there is just something that aggravates me about spending more on a motherboard than on the CPU. Probably just my bias though.
Also not sure you need a "decent" motherboard for this chip, as he showed it peaks at well under 60w of power draw. Even a terrible VRM should sustain that without breaking a sweat, so even the cheapest $80 h610 boards would be fine in terms of performance
@@jomeyqmalone True, but at 80 bucks probably spend a few more bucks for the B660. I imagine in a month or two as selection is better, price will come down a bit.
@@Jinny-Wa They're a company trying to make money, what did you expect? It's thanks to their competition that Intel was put in a bad enough position that they had to scrap their profit margins and sell huge-ass monolithic "7nm" dies for a lower price than AMD's 7nm+14nm chiplets. I'd rather AMD (Which is a *much* smaller company) make money now so they can't be kicked out of the market later through bribery, like what happened a decade ago. That way both companies can continue to compete on more or less equal grounds and keep CPU prices down. If you want anything else than that you're a fucking idiot.
@@Grimmwoldds Take a bigger L AMD fanboy, AMD got destroyed totally by Intel since Alder Lake comes out. Can't wait to see Raptor Lake destroy Zen 4 even more.
@@runninginthe90s75 You're just as much an intel fanboy, intel did not destroy AMD and passmark scores prove you wrong and all you intel fangirls wrong.
@asfgaghj they will ensure not many get to miners because they are going to mainly target OEMs (mainly laptops) and for open market there will be only very little amount of GPUs on sale or maybe even none at first and then get released later in 2023.
@@mrbobgamingmemes9558 You can’t really make a gpu that’s amazing for gaming and unusable for mining. Mining is inherently designed around how gpus work. And software limitations can be disabled as we have seen
I am pretty certain Tech Deals is throwing a fit at this. Unless you're recommending an Octa Core with 16 threads, you're not futureproof, according to him.
future proof for what? It will be slow AF by the time anything is actually makes good use of 16 threads. The only reason to buy that shit is if you already have a need for one.
Tech Deals is right in the fact that more cores are required in the future, but when the future becomes the present, those cores will be slow and you would have already upgraded your cpu anyways, that's why buying something like a 5950x or 12900K just for gaming is stupid.
Dude blocked me on Twitter for disagreeing with him lol. Look, his points do have some merits but he's assuming everyone has the budget for a 12700K or 5600X. I don't have much faith in futureproofing since midrange CPUs these days are plenty powerful enough for the average gamers to last them for years. Just buy a CPU that fits your budget now and upgrade later.
@@monke2361 No, more cores will not "be required". What is required is compute performance. The 12100F has more compute performance than many 6c/12t CPU's so it will always perform better, regardless of whether it's a 2020 game or a 2040 game. Thinking otherwise is stupid.
If any of you want a 4 core, 8 thread wait until the 1st quarter of 2022 release of the i3 12300. It is a 4.4GHz boost processor. So it is a 4790K/6700K on steroids. It can handle DDR4 3200 or DDR5 4800. I still use a 4790K with an RTX 3080 at 1440p and my CPU isn't the bottleneck in any AAA titles. LoL!! The i3 12300 is going to be an absolute monster for 1440p or 4K gaming. But it will be weak in massive video processing/editing. (Ie: 4K or 8K video production).
Why haven't AMD launched more budget-models of the 5000 series? Seems like they have really dropped the ball, and intel is gaining mindshare back fast.
I mean you'd still have to go out of your way to buy a graphics card with the 12100F, especially if you plan on doing any kind of gaming at all. You're better off with an APU at this point. Either grab a 5600g and use the onboard graphics or wait for AMD's RDNA 2 desktop APUs
it took them ages to release budget 3000 series cpus and they didn't have great availability with the supply issues I wouldn't be surprised if budget 5000 cpus just never happen or are just paper lauched
Why should they do it if they can sell more mid high end CPU? Especially their rival Intel is not as much production limited as AMD, Intel can pump many low end CPU without any problems. Also the yield of the TSMC is pretty high, remember that the whole Ryzen line up is based on the same chiplet design, if they have good enough chiplet to sell as 5600X or higher, sell it as Ryzen 3 doesn't makes sense.
The problem with Intel has been no matter how competitive the gains and pricing are, you have to go buy a new motherboard and completely rebuild your system. The price of the MB has got to be factored in, or else you're just kidding yourself. As long as AMD keeps the same socket for multiple generations, it's still going to be the value king.
@@nishanthadda8824 its only better because of that one though, without competition we might just get more laughable 11k series or near stagnation like the 10 years before
I am in the market for a budget CPU. Was initially set on getting the 10105F. But I think I am gonna go with this one instead, since it's much better than the former and it's the latest
@@Jimster481 bro I appreciate your suggestion. But my budget is around 210 USD with CPU, motherboard and 16gb ram. So if you can suggest me a cheaper one, it would be helpful.
@@Jimster481 Here it comes the AMD fanboy who are salty to see AMD budget gaming got destroyed by Intel. I enjoy all the AMD fanboy tears now since Alder Lake comes out.
Consumer friendly AMD is nowhere to be seen after well over a year. And AMD was there for the consumer the fans said! AMD cares they said! Meanwhile you need intel to bring you value for money every single time....
Many people on RU-vid and Reddit are brainwashed idiot, they think AMD is "the good guy" but actually they are worse than Intel and Nvidia, if AMD lead market.
@@lonniebeal6032 and why didnt amd do it? because they make more money this way and don't really care about the consumer even tho they keep saying 'i hear you'.
Excellent work guy! Your reviews and coverage are going from strength to strength! Would love to see you do more collaborations with Moore’s Law is Dead and some investigative journalism too.
It’s funny how a old model i3 is currently better then my 2600k i7… I would like to retire this system and build new but it’s just not worth it with gpu prices.
Yeah, being a Ryzen 5 3600 owner, I should say AMD made the big mistake here to not issue a 4/8 version of Zen 3. I could imagine, that Intel will heavily harvest this market segment in the not-so-rich countries. With the fiasco of RX 6500 XT, AMD have bitter days now, let's just hope that it's not a start of a wrong turn (again).
Quick question. Recently Der8auer found out the it is possible to BCLK overclock non K intel CPUs on ASUS ROG STRIX B660 and some ASUS ROG Z690. He just OCed i3-12100 over 5.3GHz easily without any problem and with simple cooler, even with Intel's stock cooler. In Cinebench R20 it just beat R5 5600X by 70 points!!! Do you have any thoughts on that? Can you cover this much more deeply as always? Price to Performance ratio will definitely change. It can make this CPU easily a GOTO for budget builds. Literally the BUDGET KING. Thanks by the way. Love your deep dived contents.
Hey dude, if a person is buying a 5600G or 5700G, they ARE after the iGPU, or they don't know how to shop AMD. Considering prices of GPUs, an APU is something to buy to hold oneself over for the 2 - 3 years it's going to take for prices to come down on GPUs, but even then it's not going to be a big drop in price. A lot of global inflation is here to stay. That's adding about 15 - 20% to the cost of MANUFACTURING GPUs, and then there's all the added cost of shipping, trucking, retail, etc.... and sorry you're not going to see GPUs come down less than 20% over those 2020 listed MSRPs for the RDNA 2 and Ampere parts that released at that time. And if countries don't drop their high import taxes, or GPU production for the western market isn't moved out of China, that's another 20 - 25% cost added to them. So, APUs are a lot more important now for people who want to game at a reasonable price and they don't already have a GPU. But people who buy AMD know their prices fluctuate based on supply. I've seen the 3300X for $125 and seen the 5600X for $240. Right now the 5800X is $300. And smart AMD buyers know this is going to happen, so retail prices don't mean much. I wouldn't buy anything less that a 5600X, PERSONALLY, meaning I don't care what others may do because I want at least that performance in gaming now along with other things I do with the computer. Current pricing, at least for people that can shop Micro center: www.microcenter.com/product/630285/amd-ryzen-5-5600x-vermeer-37ghz-6-core-am4-boxed-processor-wraith-stealth-cooler-included www.microcenter.com/product/630284/amd-ryzen-7-5800x-vermeer-38ghz-8-core-am4-boxed-processor-heatsink-not-included www.microcenter.com/product/639744/amd-ryzen-5-5600g-cezanne-39ghz-6-core-am4-boxed-processor-wraith-stealth-cooler-included www.microcenter.com/product/639743/amd-ryzen-7-5700g-cezanne-38ghz-8-core-am4-boxed-processor-wraith-stealth-cooler-included I've also seen the 5600G for $200 USD and for people who want an APU that's not such a bad buy, but at this point I'd wait for Zen 4 because those APUs are going to be WORLDS better than APUs today. They'll actually be able to give good gaming performance, before using RSR or FSR. So, quoting AMD prices when you're talking about products that are no longer new means that your video is accurate for about one day at least in that regard.
If the stupid crypto market ever crashes nice and hard, the budget PC gaming landscape is going to be incredible. Hopefully Intel GPUs will be available in enough quantity to help somewhat as well.
Without the pressure of AMD and RYZEN you would have never seen this chip released in 2022. Intel would have squatted on their incremental upgrade strategy from the last 10 years. This product would have been slated for a 2028 release date at best
Imagine if they put e-cores on these lower-end parts. 4p/4e/12t i3s would be ridiculously flexible little chips. Wondering if we'll see that with Raptor Lake...
A mobile one exists with 4 e cores making the total 8c/12t which is insane. I wonder whether or not next gen desktop ones will have them tho, I mean there is a chance if a mobile one exists already and if the next flagship one will have 16 whole whopping e cores if I'm not wrong.
I'd never buy a quad core in 2022 wtf, better to save one or two months and get an i5 instead of ever buying this crap (and I'm a i5 2500k user, I know patience)
@@AlfaPro1337 Or maybe not because when considering motherboards prices a 5600x+cheap B450 MAX II board or entry level b550 will cost only 50 bucks or 15% more and the 12400 isn't even faster in games close but not faster, the5600x could just drop down to 250 instead of 280-290 and call it a day, it's really sad honestly i agree but if i was AMD i would probably do the same if my old cpu's are still relevant with current prices, the worst one was probably the 5800x and where i live it already dropped down to 350 and most people would rather upgrade to a 5800x if they had an AM4 platform/cheap mobo istead of selling everything hoping for good prices and then buying a brand new B660+12600K.
@@justetan3566 I wouldn't even pair a B-series chipset for AMD, the most useless chipset in their product stack. For the same tier like Mortar or UD, X570 is just $10-20 higher. Even so, the 12400 is close to the R5 5600X (a low-end CPU by AMD, pre-Evil Su's. standard). It's a no brainer to get it, saving you $100+, and from where I'm from, the 12600 is just $50 more than the 12400. I'll pick that since it has better GPU and base clock. Once again, from where I'm from, it's really tier-to-tier pricing. So i7 is comparable to R7 of the same bundled price. Oh, sadly, with 12th gen B-series board, they are overpriced, even when there's availability. From HUB and etc, the B-series board are overbuild for no goddamn reason. Board vendors should just leave the B-series for cost effective OEM, and not for the consumer to purchase--that was the original intent for the B-series since Sandy Bridge, it was a cost effective version of the Q-series, leaving only 3 chipsets, Hx10, Hx70 and Zx90.
@@AlfaPro1337 where i live the cheapest b450 is like 70 and has strong enough vrms to handle a 5800x ( b450 tomahawk max II/gaming plus max) while cheapest b550 with decent vrms is 100+ or a little worse one is aorund 80-90 while cheap x570 have trash vrms or are just overpriced rn to like 150+. Also, B550 isn't really useless, pcie 4.0 for the gpu and 1 m2 which most people don't even use and has really good vrms and features for the price.
Impressive results honestly. Steve do you think you could get your hands on the non F version and test the UHD 730 with DDR5 and DDR4 ram? There aren't that many videos out there covering the igpu side of things of intel's 12th gen integrated graphics. I'd also LOVE to see a i7-12700k UDH 770 put through the same test. Anyway awesome video!
@@thelawnet That's not the point. You could buy the i3 now and switch to an i9 later. I just want to see what memory bandwidth would make. I imagine it's going to be the same or very similar, mostly because it's limited by the actual igpu cores and the latency of the ram but I don't have the possibility to test it myself.
I don't see how games are supposed to evolve much besides graphics when people see 20% performance improvement as great. I remember when we were seeing 60% a year in CPUs.
nice cpu, if only we can get it for that price :p in my country, it price like 10400f, and a bit lower than 11400f so i better stay on lga 1200 but kudos for intel, they really is back
OMG, awesome review!! Steve, PLEASE do check the h610 boards! Can't wait for that video! There's so much confusion on those, some people say it works for PCIe 4.0 with graphics cards, other people say it only has PCIe 3.0; some people complain it only has 2 slots for RAM, but isn't the optimal number 2 sticks for all the boards anyway?! (I only intend on using 2x 8gb RAM sticks). Absolutely no one says how much performance you're losing with h610, which leads me to believe that for gaming it's just fine and won't have any meaningful impact on performance. I feel like I don't really need the gimmicks of the other boards, I'm not exactly enthusiast and I only want to play games at 1080p. I don't want to overclock anything.. I live in a 3rd world country and each MSRP dollar more is the equivalent of $10 on the prices here, so knowing that h610 will do nicely enough will be really useful for my decision making. Thanks in advance!
You do know that there's a website for each motherboard to look for and download the manual? The RAM confusion was under Intel slides, but cleared up. H610 supports dual channel memory, however, per channel is limited to one slot, instead of two slots like other chipset. You will never see H610 board with the maximum 4 DIMM slots, only 2 DIMM slots. People are often confused with the chipset's PCIE revision. The first PCIE x16 is always connected directly to the CPU, not via the chipset. The rest of the PCIE slots are connected to the chipset. The M.2 slots are connected via chipset, so it's PCIE 3.0.
@@AlfaPro1337 Yes, but I don't understand most things when I read those infos. I'd like to know, in layman's terms, if I'm losing performance on h610 at all, because apparently I'm not. I don't see a reason to use more than dual channel (I know they made a mistake writing it would allow just 1 RAM stick, that would've been a big NO to h610!) and if I can get PCIe gen 4 for the graphics card, I have absolutely no reason at all to buy the more expensive motherboards (even though gen 3 apparently is fine any graphics card other than RX 6500XT). This m2 thing you're talking is the SSD, right? A type that runs faster? A plain old SATA III for me is just fine! I just want something to run this CPU, period! :P knowing in numbers it performs as good as a b660 will be the deciding point I need, so the tests will be really useful! Thanks for the infos :)
With H610+12100F + budget GPU, you are not losing much in possible performance, but are simply losing in future-proofing. Which may be not an issue if the plan is to buy another PC in a few years time, or, say, play just e-sports, not future AAA games with a powerful GPU that push innovations in graphics technology 3-5 years from now. But 12100F+ H610 is not for that anyway.
@@NeblogaiLT Thanks for the thoughts! Definetely not interested in future-proofing, I don't hold much faith in that term at all. The graphics card would be a much more valuable asset for that and current GPUs are barely pushing PCIe gen 4 capabilities as it is. There is the Ray Tracing thing, but I find that laughable in most comparisons I see, definetely not worth the performance hit. It's very likely that this CPU will run most games in a 5 years time since higher IPC is still the more performance-boosting aspect for games a CPU can have. But who knows. Besides that, I really only play single player RPGs. They say a powerful CPU is only really important for competitive online games. I might need a mid-range GPU to run Baldur's Gate 3, though... The recommended requirements for that game lists a 6gb GPU, which's why I'm not buying a current budget GPU option and saving as much as I can for a 6GB model. I'm waiting on Arc GPUs to see if Intel has anything worthwhile for a more just price, since from what I'm reading their cheapest GPU will have 6gb vram! :D here's to hoping there'll be availability!
Another HWU banger! R5 3600 got destroyed by a quad core. Now we got a fight on our hands! 400w with a midrange GPU would be enough, but overkill? I don't know about that. And why would you do that anyway leaving you with two parts (PSU and CPU/GPU) to buy if you do buy a better GPU and/or CPU in the future? I'd aim for 500-650w if you think you may upgrade later. 400w if you know you won't.
Yeah if you are not comfortable with the numbers better choose 2 much than 2 less... A 12600k or 5800x would probably be the mightiest CPU I would put into a Highend Gaming System
Not to diminish the value and performance of the 12100 but... are we really considering it an achievement and having "a fight on our hands" for it to beat a budget CPU from 3 years ago? Hell Zen 2 was even behind Intel's single core/gaming performance at the time, not by much but still. It was the price to performance and the multicore prowess that made Zen 2 what it was, not outright framerate heroics.
AMD time is over now, at least for next coming 4-5 years.And they deserve it, as they became so greedy, see their prices. Well done Intel. Hats off to your genius engineer for giving us this awesome technology:- P CORES AND E CORES wow, wow, wow, what a great technology man. After a long long time of Intel's superb cpu, 2600K sandybridge, intel is back, well done intel.
@@MrReddragongamingHD I'm hearing you on mobile vs desktop. Over the last 16 years I've gone from a Celeron D to an A-3600 then a 1700X, then 3600. I need mobility now with my job often taking me away so 10300H and RTX2060 in an Acer Nitro 5 works on the road. Back home it goes on a cooling stand and runs my desktop screen/keyboard and mouse. Best investment I ever made.
everything is an improvement over 10th Gen H stuff these days. Its skylake on mobile(low wattage) with low core count, =not great, hell a desktop I5 6000/7000 series are just as fast or faster than your cpu in most cases.
i hope intel doesnt block bclk overclocking on motherboards that allow it. the 12400f and this 12100f are gems when you can bump up the bclk. it reminds me of the old time when overclocking low-end parts to have the performance of high-end parts.
Looking after you? That is stupid to say when INTEL was the one ass raping you when they had the upper hand. None of these companies are your buddies, they will screw you over at the drop of a hat.
That is why i said its weird, we know what intel did in the past. But all companies in this industry had anti-consumer practices including amd. It's up to us if we allow them and be fanboys. in this case intel is giving us better on gaming than the amd 6 core from last gen is cheaper than 3300x.
Intel is doing this because their fabs have been sitting idle and they've been losing marketshare. They basically had to scrap the stable profit margins they had been maintaining for decades, and make a huge ass monolithic "7nm" die and sell it for less than AMD's 7nm+14nm chiplets. They're doing it to remain relevant, because marketshare is market power, not because they give a shit about you.
Im thinking of getting this CPU for my dad, it is decently fast in day to day use especially when paired with a fast SSD, I might toss in an RTX 3050 aswell just for kicks and giggles xD
Feels pretty weird to say that now Intel is the budget king. Used to be AMD's bread and butter, and they've been pretty non-existent in this segment of the market for quite some time. Great benchmarks Steve.
'4 cores in 2022? 8 cores barely allow you to boot into windows. You need 12 cores for modern gaming or the frametimes will be terrible. Why are you even reviewing this cpu?' Tech Deals probably
Have you fallen for core count is king argument AMD peddled out? This shows a 4 core cpu outperforming 6 core 3600, or even matching the 8 core 10700k in gaming
All this shows is game designers are still not optimizing games for more than quad cores in a lot of titles. Nobody should be buying quad core CPUs in 2022...
@tilapia dave op's choice is still the better one *now*. The 5600x is still the cheapest zen3 cpu, performs similarly to the more expensive versions, and performs substantially better than this card
Ryzen 3600 is blown out of the water, in my case i will still consider the 3600 as an upgrade, currently running 2600x oced to 4.1ghz on all cores with a X370 board so thats the only option for me if I want to update on a budget without replacing the motherboard
Lack of 12700K or 12900K make this "review" untrustworthy. Sorry to say, but your tendency to depreciate NVIDIA or Intel products is all too clearly evident.
This is once again a very tangible reminder/proof of the fact that most of what we do on PCs in everyday use and casual(ish) gaming doesn't need more than 8 threads at all and instead of high multicore performance benefits more from single-threaded performance. And in many cases, that difference can be quite significant.
Well on occasion I would love to stream when gaming, or run VMs in the background when gaming or just be able to alt tab when gaming to check stuff. I had quad cores up until 2017, I don't think we should be going back on old tech for only one purpose. A PC is not a console and should not be used as a console. Unless of course you can't afford a true PC device.
@@thathandsomedevil0828 I don't know about running VMs while gaming, that will certainly depend on a specific game and VM combo more than anything, but I'm pretty sure you'd be perfectly fine alt-tabbing or streaming using NVENC or equivalent. It is an 8 thread CPU, so for all practical intents and purposes, it's an octa-core, not a quad core. Also who says how a PC should be used. If someone wants to use their PC as a console, it's their choice, just like it's your choice to run VMs on it.
