Review Intel Core i5-12400, faster than the Ryzen 5600 and much cheaper

Intel hasn’t officially announced the Core i5-12400 that it will be priced at $ 185, but as always, someone gets a sample and can test it out. This is the case with Tom’s Hardware where we can see that the Core i5-12400 offers an impressive level of performance, outperforming all comparable Ryzen processors and even several of the more expensive models.

As we always said and history shows, the Intel Core i5s have long been the best CPUs for gamers.

Recall that AMD abandoned the market for CPUs of less than 200 solar when it launched its Ryzen 5000 processors, due to the shortage that COVID generated, or at least that is what they say.

It is Intel Core i5-12400 It has 6 high-performance cores (P-Core) with 12 processing threads at a Base / Turbo frequency of 2.50 / 4.40 GHz and a TDP of 65W and is manufactured at 10nm. The AMD Ryzen 5 5600X It has 6 cores and 12 threads at 3.70 / 4.60 GHz with a 65W TDP manufactured at 7nm.

We do not have to deny reality and this is an ideal CPU for gamers, since as you can see the Intel Core i5-12400 is 1.9% faster than the AMD Ryzen 5600X, 16.8% faster than the APU AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with integrated graphics, or 15.7% faster than its predecessor, the Core i5 11400. The Core i5-12400 is 2.3% faster than its direct rival, 6.7% if we do a bit overclocking, and it costs 61% less with a power draw of just 86W.

The Core i5-12400 dominates its rival in practically all tests, games, synthetic benchmarks, productivity, creation, and more. The best part is that the Core i5-12400 will go on sale for $ 185 compared to $ 299 for the Ryzen 5 5600X or $ 259 for the AMD Ryzen 5 5600G.

The interesting? It is that in single core performance it is capable of surpassing the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X.