![]() ![]() To make a long story short: The 12th-gen Intel processors tend to beat out their competition on the AMD side of the aisle with a decided advantage. You can check out that review here if you want to dig into the numbers. We have an exhaustive review and benchmark of the top-of-the-line Core i9 12900K (the slightly cheaper model with overclocking disabled) and the more budget-friendly Core i5-12600K. If you’re willing to spend $ on a CPU alone, more power (supply) to you. It doesn’t have a direct competitor in the Core i9 series, since the 12900KF tops out at 8 cores, but Intel manages to make it a pretty even fight anyway. Since Intel is certainly swinging for the fences, we’ll include the top-of-the-line, 16-core Ryzen 9 5950X in this comparison too. You’ll also need to pair Ryzen processors with a discrete graphics card. Note that Intel’s slightly less expensive CPUs, the F series, lack integrated graphics and need a separate GPU. Let’s break it down, shall we? THE CONTENDERSĪssuming that you’re basing your decision on a budget for a PC build, and that you’re phenomenally lucky and manage to find a CPU at the base retail price, Intel and AMD’s options boil down to a few standard tiers (see below). So you might as well make the right one, right? Intel’s spanking-new 12th-gen Alder Lake CPU series is busting benchmarks, but there are still plenty of reasons to stick with AMD’s Ryzen 5000 architecture from last year - or to wait it out and see what comes next. ![]() ![]() YOU MIGHT WANT TO WAIT FOR AMD’S NEXTGEN OFFERINGīut to hell with that fence-sitting BS: It’s still a decision you have to make.ALDER LAKE CHIPS (AND OTHER PARTS) MIGHT BE HARD TO FIND.IT’S GOING TO COST A LOT FOR AN INTEL UPGRADE.ALDER LAKE IS MORE FUTURE-PROOF THAN CURRENT AMD HARDWARE. ![]()
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