Summary
One thing in advance, even if the part gets a purchase tip from me for productive use: For use in workstations or productive workstations, you will of course have to differentiate exactly whether the Core i5-12400 is worthwhile and adds up at all (work time). Because six cores with HT (or SMT) is definitely not the way to go these days for really large workloads in programs that scale well with core count. You would be much better off with a Core i7-12700K for a bit more money, and you would also be done with the work faster. Or you can use the Ryzen 9 CPUs then. That’s something everyone has to decide for themselves. Yes, Workstation works, but just not in all application areas. Of course, this affects the Ryzen 5 5600X and the Core i5-12400 to the same extent.
But: Efficiency really fits perfectly into the ecological trend here, too, especially in applications with changing loads, such as those generated by many construction programs. AutoCAD is just one example of many. So wherever the GPU has to take the brunt of the workload, you can definitely be happy with a Core i5-12400 on a DDR4 or DDR5 board. Therefore, there is also the purchase tip for this part. But then it’s not really enough for more, you really have to narrow it down that much. Because there are big differences between gaming and real productive applications.
And so, in the end, exactly what I wrote about gaming the day before yesterday applies: New buyers and upgraders from the very bottom and or very old can, assuming normal availability, can gladly grab this one. At least when the workloads match it as well. The rest will certainly choose a larger CPU, whether from AMD or Intel. And the price will surely be an issue, because the B660 boards are still quite expensive and the H610 boards are not even worth considering due to lack of features. If the board prices at Intel will normalize again at some point, AMD will surely react with the price of the CPUs. Only below the Core i5-12400 it becomes a home game for Intel as of now. Because that’s exactly where AMD unfortunately has nothing in its portfolio at all at the moment, for whatever reason. Only then this hardware is at most something for the office. Different target audience.
The tested CPU is a self-procured, retail CPU and was not provided by Intel. A voluntary signing of NDAs was not accepted by Intel due to the alleged relevance of our publication until today, so that I again purely voluntarily adhere to the embargo periods for CPU and motherboard (keyword collegiality). The motherboard and memory are commercially sourced and were only provided on the condition that the embargo periods for these products were adhered to. There was therefore no interference with the test results.
- 1 - Introduction and test systems
- 2 - Autodesk AutoCAD 2021
- 3 - Autodesk Inventor 2021 Pro
- 4 - Solidworks 2021
- 5 - Various CAD benchmarks - SPECvieperf 2020
- 6 - Rendering, Financial, Programming
- 7 - Science and math (1)
- 8 - Science and math (2)
- 9 - Power consumption and efficiency
- 10 - Summary and conclusion
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