Core i5-12400 vs. Ryzen 5 5600X: medium weight duel

Gelsinger specifically stated thisthat AMD is in the rearview mirror when it comes to the consumer hardware market, by which he meant the Alder Lake-S processors. This could be discussed very lively, especially at the very beginning of this year, when the offer of Intel’s new processors was not yet complete. But it must be acknowledged that Intel now has processors on the market that AMD cannot compete with. However, this is not because AMD would not be able to do so, but because it must use its available capacities with care and it certainly does not include cheap chip processors. However, customers are interested in a real offer. –

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We can also look at the optics of the server here TechSpot, which pitted the Core i5-12400 (approx. 5400 CZK, or 4700 CZK in version F) and the Ryzen 5 5600X (approx. 7600 CZK). In addition, this Ryzen has recently become more expensive than cheaper, so it does not look like any pressure on AMD’s offer yet, but prices are at least slowly starting to return to the autumn level.-

We compare processors whose price does not match, but that is why Intel has a chance to pass this test very well if it provides a processor that is comparable in performance to the 5600X for a significantly lower price. The difference is that the motherboard can fit in it, although not exactly the MSI Z690 Tomahawk Wi-Fi model on which it was tested, but some significantly cheaper piece. Furthermore, the Radeon RX 6900 XT card was chosen as Windows 11.

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In the obligatory Cinebench, Core simply has the upper hand, even with the limitation to its basic consumption of 65 W, which represents a very promising starting position. On the contrary, it lags behind in the 7-Zip compression test, but again in Corona (rendering), Chromia code compilation, Adobe Premiere Pro 2021 (video) and After Effects 2022, and in Photoshop in particular, the forces are very balanced as in Blender. But there is no test in which Core clearly lags behind and is usually faster, sometimes with significantly limited consumption.

It was thus expected that Intel would not lag behind AMD in the games either, but here the results are far more “scattered”. Some titles like Far Cry 6 or The Riftbreaker will appreciate the Core processor, others like Hitman 3, Age of Empires IV or Horizon Zero Dawn will be Ryzen, and in the case of others like Cyberpunk 2077 it doesn’t really matter. Overall, one could lean more to the side of the Ryzen 5 5600X processor, but it should be noted that, as in the case of the results discussed above, this mainly affects the choice of tests / games.

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AMD then has a bit of a comparison in terms of consumption, but the 13 W really isn’t a big difference, and it’s clear that the Alder Lake-S, with fewer cores and lower beats, is very different from the first models to hit the hybrid architecture market. But then there is also a test of the total consumption of the assembly in Cyberpunk, where both processors gave very similar performances, and at the same time the assembly with Core is 20 W more economical.

So is AMD in Intel’s rearview mirror? Not yet, but in the case of cheaper processors, the advantage is definitely now on the blue side.

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