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Entry level Alder Lake: i5-12400 review, the new value king

if 12400 does sell for 200 quid its gonna be best value setup to get. i suspect come next month amd will do a price cut on all zen3 cpus. probably 50 quid of each sku
 
Cyber-Mav said:
if 12400 does sell for 200 quid its gonna be best value setup to get. i suspect come next month amd will do a price cut on all zen3 cpus. probably 50 quid of each sku
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I don’t think AMD CPU’s will get any reduction passed on to retailers until the low end CPU and GPU supply is resolved.
 
time for intel to gain marketshare then. amd playing a risky game, zen4 could go the way phenom2/fx cpus did and then amd will be out of it for 10 more years.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
if 12400 does sell for 200 quid its gonna be best value setup to get. i suspect come next month amd will do a price cut on all zen3 cpus. probably 50 quid of each sku
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It's already in stock and for sale down under, lots of stock actually

Converted into pounds: the 12400 is 160 pounds and 12400f is 140 pounds. Also available is 12500 at 180 pounds and 12100f at 80 pounds
 
Grim5 said:
already for sale down under

Converted into pounds: the 12400 is 160 pounds and 12400f is 140 pounds. Also available is 12500 at 180 pounds and 12100f at 80 pounds
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They are already for sale here too.. £179 for the 12400f and £199 for the 12400.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
waaa just seen them now in stock too cant believe it. amd's dusted.
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AMD's CPU's have been going on sale often lately. However, the lowest I have seen the 5600X is $250 and it was an in-store-pickup-only offer that seemed like a loss-leader.

I wonder if AMD has enough margin to compete with AL i5's without taking a loss on each sale.
 
Everyone is wrong on this (12400 value king)

I don't know why the 12400 series is getting all the hype

the 12500 is where it's at, it's only $10 to $20 more than the 12400 and it has higher clock speed and much faster GPU and it has an encoder and all of that with the same 65w TDP
 
Cyber-Mav said:
Yes i saw that the 12500 is only 10 quid more than the 12400, didnt know the gpu was faster thought it was just the clocks
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CPU i5-12400 i5-12500
Price $192 $202
Cores 6/12 6/12
Base clock 2.5 GHz 3.0 GHz
Boost clock 4.4 GHz 4.6 GHz
Cache 18 MB 18 MB
GPU UHD 730 (24 EU) UHD 770 (32 EU)
TDP / Turbo 65W -> 117W 65W -> 117W
Codec Engines 1 2
 
Grim5 said:
Everyone is wrong on this (12400 value king)

I don't know why the 12400 series is getting all the hype

the 12500 is where it's at, it's only $10 to $20 more than the 12400 and it has higher clock speed and much faster GPU and it has an encoder and all of that with the same 65w TDP
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I think the performance will be poor at 65watts. In the review (real) the chip is pulling 150 watts. The beefed up IGP at 32 EU’s might be interesting paired with fast memory though. The UHD 770 could be usefully quick.
 
jigger said:
150 watts is 45 more watts than 105 so, no not really.
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Comparing actual power draw of one part to TDP of another.

There's also heat density to consider.

The 12900k is turned up to 11 and difficult/expensive to keep cool in full core workloads....but fine for gaming.

The rest of the stack has been doing fine with cooling in general.
 
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