They were out of stock for a few weeks after the initial early batch but came back in to stock again later, you can still buy the 3100 now, its in stock.
They sold very well, good little CPU at the time.
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AMD Got Greedy: R5 5500 CPU vs. Intel i3-12100F
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They were out of stock for a few weeks after the initial early batch but came back in to stock again later, you can still buy the 3100 now, its in stock.
They sold very well, good little CPU at the time.
Yeah I wonder how it would do with AMDs budget 6500XT?
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I've always hated this in reviews. No, you're not "showing the real difference by eliminating bottlenecks" - you're instead changing the entire performance landscape you operate under and then getting spurious results. If you had unlimited time it'd be nice to see a good variety of platforms and graphics cards and so on, but the real-world performance is going to be on a budget-appropriate motherboard and with matching GPU. If that results in the CPUs being tied then, well, the CPUs were tied. It also gives people a lot better ability to see where to spend money on a system - what would make a difference vs what only looks like it makes a difference cause we massaged the scenario to make an artificial load on one component.
I also realise tech reviews are primarily about entertainment and engagement, neither of which is well served by finding no appreciable differences.
Your testing method would have the 5500 the clear winner given its more often than not a stronger productivity CPU, if you're just testing these CPU in games with GPU's that people might run them with, well then they are identical.... to a Ryzen 3100, or a Ryzen 2600, or a 6700K. Do you really need a reviewer to tell you that?
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Yeah I wonder how it would do with AMDs budget 6500XT?
£150 cpu with a £170 gpu is what people would probably use. Seems logical to compare at that level because that is what people would purchase. Then it comes down to total system cost which would be good consumer advice.
Majority of systems with 10400f/12400f are with RTX 3050/2060 and above or some with GTX 1660 Super/Ti but very few, and if AMD cards they are 6600/XT but way less volume. Depends on what the user is buying the system for as well, if just games then it's always weighted heavily to the GPU cost vs the CPU. The system I build on Wednesday had an RTX 3070 with a 12100f, not my choice, that was the end users choice.
I'm pretty sure the 12100F would trounce the 5500 with a budget card like the 6500XT as the superior pcie gen 4.0 vs 3.0 comes into play for that card, also see the 12100F is only about 90 quid now.
That is correct, one review showed that a 12100f + 6500xt is faster in games than R5 5500 + 6500xt
Don't suppose you can remember where?