12400f vs 5600x

[Devryd]

Hi,

where I live, both CPUs are exactly the same price at the moment. 
Which would you pick? I know there is no upgradepath for the 5600x (except for the 5800x3d) but upgrading wont matter for the person, whom I want to build the PC for. Since mainboards are a lot cheaper for AM4, I am favouring it slightly.
What are your recommendations?

[Pixelfie]

So including motherboard the 5600X is cheaper? In that case 5600X. It's slightly faster (not much), but like you said upgrades are limited.

 

Edit: The 5600X is sligthly faster in gaming, but for productivity the 12400F usually performs sligthly better.

Edited July 18, 2022 by Pixelfie

[Motifator]

There might be more X3D CPUs on the horizon, but with the 12400F, it's guaranteed that you'll get 13th gen to the socket.

Though I do have a 12400F, I don't dig the lackluster old boost logic of it aka the Turbo Boost 2.0. There's no 3.0 on it, and the cores end up scrambling at 4 Ghz all day, rather than actually reaching 4.4. It's still good, but if I had to choose between the two only without considering upgrading the current platform, I'd go with the 5600X. It really depends on when you'll upgrade this.

[Bombastinator]

The 12400f is marginally faster, but the motherboards that will run it are also more expensive so in the end it still costs more.  There are also rumors that zen 4 may still use the am4 socket.  I don’t consider it terribly likely myself.  I would say that while AMD normally has a massive advantage for upgradability at this moment they are about the same.  It’s really kind of a straight line choice.  If you are using an AMD video card it makes more sense to go with the AMD chip because there are certain advantages gained from that.  If you are not there is a tiny advantage imho for intel here as they tend to require less maintainance over time due to software vendors sometimes only testing on intel forcing AMD to replicate the bugs of the intel chips so stuff will run.  This one may come down to how good a deal on motherboards for one platform or the other there is.  This has become a race of inches whereas before it wasn’t.

 

IMHO Intel raised the price of the 12400f too much.  They could have raised it by $25 and still maintained an advantage.  They seem to have pissed that one away though.  At the end of the day the 12400f and the 5600 are just very close on performance, but the motherboards for the 12400f cost more.  If the 12400f was even the same price at the end of the day that would be one thing, but it’s not.  It’s more expensive because of the motherboards.

[Brooksie359]

One thing to consider is what gpu you are pairing this with as in all honesty there is a high chance that the performance will be gpu limited and you will see 0 performance difference in gaming. I mean the difference is already marginal with a high end gpu like a 3080 or 3090 so when using something like 3070 or 3060 it will be even smaller of a difference. 

[Bombastinator]

34 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

One thing to consider is what gpu you are pairing this with as in all honesty there is a high chance that the performance will be gpu limited and you will see 0 performance difference in gaming. I mean the difference is already marginal with a high end gpu like a 3080 or 3090 so when using something like 3070 or 3060 it will be even smaller of a difference. 

I concur.  This one is about which system is cheaper.  It always was really, the difference is prior to the intel price hike it basically always won.  It is not at all clear that it will in this case though.

[Mister Woof]

Performance is a wash. Get whatever's cheaper 

[Bombastinator]

1 minute ago, Shimmy Gummi said:

Performance is a wash. Get whatever's cheaper 

..but figure out what you need for the full system and base it on that.