i3 12th/13th/14th Gen

[testcy]

What are the differences between i3 12th/13th/14th Gen? Is there a performance gain of 14th over 13th over 12th worth the extra cost?

[rippy4500]

14100f is only a couple percent faster than 13100f, and 13100f is only a couple percent faster than 12100f. So it's not much im pretty sure.
Just get a 14100f cause I think it only barely costs more than a 13100f right now.

Edit: I think you get much better value if you go for an i5 12400f (or 13th/14th gen equivalent)

[AndreiArgeanu]

They're pretty much just the same chips but each have slightly higher clock speeds and power budgets than the other. And support for more memory, I think 192gb of 14th and 13th gen vs 128gb on 12th gen or something like that. Cheapest might be best, but if it's not that much extra it might be worth considering one of the newer chips. There's a 200mhz difference between gens for boost clocks and 100mhz for base clocks, so 14th gen is 200mhz higher boost and 100mhz higher than 13th gen and same applies for 13th and 12th gen.

 

Personally I don't thin any of the i3 chips are really worth it, I'd just pick up the 12400f, 20$ extra for 2 extra cores is a pretty good deal

[ulookuglynoob]

Im running on a 12100f, and it is very good. it is 30 buck cheaper than the 14100f and there really isn't much of a difference. I would personally just get a 12100f and spend the 30 bucks on upgrading something else. you also got a clear upgrade path. i'm running on a 3070 with little to no bottleneck.

 

[porina]

12100F to 14100F is up to 400 MHz more turbo. What is the use case? I got a 12100F very recently as the cheapest recent era CPU, which will become a new file server so I don't need massive CPU.

 

59 minutes ago, rippy4500 said:

Edit: I think you get much better value if you go for an i5 12400f (or 13th/14th gen equivalent)

For general use, 6 cores would be a better general experience for sure.

 

34 minutes ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

Personally I don't thin any of the i3 chips are really worth it, I'd just pick up the 12400f, 20$ extra for 2 extra cores is a pretty good deal

Are they that close where you are? Where I am in UK, the 12400F is 42% more than the 12100F.

[AndreiArgeanu]

27 minutes ago, porina said:

Are they that close where you are? Where I am in UK, the 12400F is 42% more than the 12100F.

I'm asumming US pricing. And I was comparing it to the 13100F and 14100F which have similar pricing to each other. I think it's about 40$ when compared to the 12100F.

[porina]

5 minutes ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

And I was comparing it to the 13100F and 14100F which have similar pricing to each other. I think it's about 40$ when compared to the 12100F.

I missed that nuance. Yes, 12400F makes more sense than a 14100F due to the narrow pricing difference. I think the bigger drop to 12100F might still have some value depending on use case.