New benchmarks of Intel's Alder Lake Core i5-12400F Desktop CPU have popped up online which shows it faster than AMD's Ryzen 5 5600X in gaming and synthetic benchmarks.

Intel's Sub-$200 US Core i5-12400F Crushes AMD's Ryzen 5 5600X In Leaked Benchmarks, Faster Than The i7-11700K Too

Update: Igor's Lab has posted the first in-depth gaming benchmarks of the Core i5-12400 CPU (that was simulated through Intel Core i5-12600K) with DDR4 memory and the performance against the Ryzen 5 5600X looks amazing at its expected price. Check out Igor's full review here!

Intel Core i5-12400 Alder Lake Gaming Performance Power & Performance Efficiency (Image Credits: Igor's Lab):

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The Intel Core i5-12400 is going to be the most entry-level chip within the Alder Lake Core i5 CPU segment. It will rock 6 cores, 12 threads and rely only on Golden Cove (P-Cores). There will be no Gracemont cores on the 12400. Additionally, it will rock a base clock of 2.5 GHz and boost all the way up to 4.4 GHz (4.0 GHz all-core). The CPU has a base TDP of 65W but the maximum wattage should be between 100-150W. Well, not actually 150 since that's what the Core i5-12600K, the top Core i5 unlocked chip features but we would only know once we get to test the chip.

The new benchmarks were leaked by a content creator at Bilibili who got access to the QS variant of the chip. The motherboard used was an OEM B660M-N D4 which supports DDR4 memory and overclocking too. 16 GB DDR4-3200 memory along with an RTX 3070 were part of the test system.

In terms of performance, the Intel Core i5-12400F is compared against the Core i7-11700K, Core i5-11400F, and the Ryzen 5 5600X. The chip beats all CPUs in terms of single-core performance within CPU-z and is faster than the 5600X and 11400F in multi-threaded tests. It only loses out to the Core i7-11700K which rocks a much higher clock speed and more threads (12 vs 16). Same is the case in the Cinebench R23 benchmark where the little i5-12400F chip is 19% faster in multi-threaded & 11 percent faster in single-threaded tests. In the TimeSpy CPU score, the Intel i5-12400F is around 13 percent faster than the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X.

Intel Core i5-12400F CPU Synthetic Benchmarks:

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Moving over to gaming benchmarks, all CPUs were tested at 1080p. In CSGO, the i5-12400F is 4% faster, in Shadow of The Tomb Raider, the average frame rate is about on par with the Ryzen 5 & finally, we have Red Dead Redemption 2 where the chip is faster than all of the chips tested.

Intel Core i5-12400F CPU Gaming Benchmarks:

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Intel Core i5-12400F Alder Lake CPU Benchmarks: