What's The Best CPU for GAMING?! - Intel vs AMD Ryzen!
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- What's the BEST GAMING CPU?! PC Centric benchmarks the Intel Core i3 12100, i5 12400f, i7 12700k, against the AMD Ryzen 5 5600x and 5800X! What's the best processor for gaming?!
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0:00 Intro
0:49 What Is A "Gaming CPU"
3:00 Test Setup
6:21 Testing The Games
10:10 Ryzen 5800X
12:13 Intel CPU Testing
15:16 BENCHMARKS!
17:42 What Should You Buy? 
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Been wanting a video like this for ages! Thanks!
I love the makeshift boxes for the intel chips lol. Well done on the video, its just what i needed.
Recently discovered your channel and happy that you are Britain based. Some channels advertise or talk about parts not available in the UK.
You are amazing!! We love you keep up the great work. We also need people like you in the pc community!!
Found this video trying to figure out how to build my first pc... I like this guy.. I don't know what the heck he was telling me a lot of the time but I guess I have rabbit hole to go down now.. see you in other videos my good sir.
I'm planning my first build thanks to the information in your videos, I was completely clueless and relying on pre built before I found your channel
some Prebuilts arebuilt by known companies like hp , do you think its a good option , i mean we cant build like they do
The videos are always educational and entertaining at the same time. Thank you! 🙏
Very helpful information! Thank you.
wow this video was so helpful I'm taking notes and I will be saving up.
This is the best demonstration video of CPU - GPU combos I've seen. Now I only have to look at a Graphics Card upgrade.
I think you should have included the 1% lows as the difference can be more apparent. Still a great review!
Right on. Thanks for sharing.
Love your videos and I was literally looking for this wow
Actually quite a useful video, well done
Glad to have discord alerts now : D
I needed this thanks!
thanks for doing all these videos!
Great video, Actually quite a useful video :)
Thanks for a great video! Time for a new gaming build and a round of what parts to start with!..........Where is your floofy kitty/supervisor?
You’re a legend, thanks mate. Top man
I think you picked some good titles to test, and I have no idea what else I'd suggest, but it would be cool to see more titles with the 5600x & 12400F. It would also be super cool to see a sequel to this video where you try to find the specific GPU that matches best (lowest bottleneck between CPU & GPU). It would make a great foundational suggestion for a team blue or red build for someone who is just looking for the most solid build without breaking the bank for performance they won't even see.
I think some videos already explained this pretty well. For 1080p, 5600/x or 12400/f, and a RX 6600. For 1440p, 6700XT and 3070 (same cpus). I think HUB and GN did some pretty good videos on those two topics previously. Specifically Hardware Unboxed did a video showing the best bang for buck performance out of a-lot of the current GPUs.
@@facestabber Planned to build a rig in late 2023 or head of 2024. Not sure 3080 will be available that time. Can you suggest me if I am using a 4080, which intel cpu i shall use? Mainly for gaming , no photo/video editing. Planned to open ultra settings in the game without lag. I am building a rig that can be used for 5-6 years without changing of parts so its very important to me. The monitor I used is 144Hz,Ips,27 inch 1440p . Can you help me?
@@Unknownthewiu 13700k would be good with 8 p-core and 8 e-core while being sub $500 usd for current gen Intel.
Just my take but I mainly use AMD so grain of salt on this.
Who’s watching in 2024
I woke up, wanted a new cpu searched on yt. And you had just made this video. I love you.
Let's go pc centric posted!!
nice video I just completed a 12600k, 3080 build and its running amazing
Great video
Great video always wonder about this and always went to got for the 5700 i think it was but might just it to the suggest cpu which i think is the R5600 my games only challenging one that could be is 7dtd and maybe Ark so thanks might save me money.
Thank you for all the advice I’m new to this pc thing and you’re helping me make the right choices really appreciate it
awesome videos mate
I have an Alienware from a year and a half ago. I have a Ryzen 3950X, 32 GB Memory and the Nvidia 2800 TI. I really enjoy the PC for both surfing the web and also gaming.
Fantastic as always but would really love to see Microsoft Flight Sim included in the games in future. Please 🙏😜
Great again sir!
Thanks for fueling my new addiction!
Thanks for this video i was planning on upgrading my pc and now i know whihc one i should choose
Glad I could help!
I love watching your videos!
Man I’m loving this discord notifications lol
Thanks so much for making this video, I’m just about to order parts for my first build in over 12 years! And I really want a 60fps 4K machine on my lounge tv as a console alternative, and I’ve been scratching my head when others keep recommending ultra high end CPU’s 12900k etc if you’re buying a 3080ti or 6900xt, which didn’t seem right to me when I’m just gaming (with nothing else happening on the system) @ 4K with max settings, and now you’ve proved it! My 12400 is officially locked in.
is that i5? I’ve been hearing the same thing but I figured a 3080 could run pretty well w an i5
@@modifiedlandfish well I can happily report that I’m hitting my targeted 60fps with ultra everything’s rtx on etc with everything I’ve thrown at it so far! :-)
@@darrenwilkinson1742 Planned to build a rig in late 2023 or head of 2024. Not sure 3080 will be available that time. Can you suggest me if I am using a 4080, which intel cpu i shall use? Mainly for gaming , no photo/video editing. Planned to open ultra settings in the game without lag. I am building a rig that can be used for 5-6 years without changing of parts so its very important to me. The monitor I used is 144Hz,Ips,27 inch 1440p . Can you help me?
@@Unknownthewiu check out gamers nexus intel 13th gen reviews, but from my memory the 13600k is a beast and not crazy money. Good luck
@@darrenwilkinson1742 you mean the i5-13600k right? if budget abit, i5-12400 also fine?
This video (combined with some of your other videos) has really helped me when I'm now considering getting a new PC (mainly for MMOs like WoW and FFXIV, but probably other games like Cyberpunk 2077 an photo editing). I'm still rocking an 11 year old i7 2600. (Yeah, you heard me, I said 2600, not 12600!) Looks like I'll be going for something like an i5 12600K, to have just a little bit of room to grow.
pc old as yours when u upgrade cpu you gotta buy a board, then hopefully your psu isnt shit cause thall have to go too. also, hopefully your cooler is good enough to cool your new beast, next thing you know 1200+ gone LOL
Updates?
Yes, what did you go for in the end?
Really wish you included the 12600k as in most tests I’ve seen it doesn’t perform much less than the 12700k but it goes for about $100 less
Its not worth it at all you can upgrade you gpu with that money
you mean it is worth it
see desc
@@rivall8105 me?
That part that planet zoo is the most demanding, is absolutely true, I've been saying the same with planet coaster, as long as you have a full park/zoo, with some coasters, decoration and visitors, it becomes incredibly demanding.
Bro you are JUST what I need
I love your dad style jokes! Keep up the great work this is an amazing video for a first time builder - still waiting for prices to get back to normal - so this information is great for me!
just build my first PC last week for my specs I went with
Radeon RX 6600 XT
Intel Core i5-12400
GIGABYTE B660M DS3H DDR4
I think I did good with the CPU i went with
Very nice 👍
solid pairing
bad mobo thou
@@juanme555 I agree
If you can return your mobo I would switch to an asus z series motherboard. I just switched to a z590 (msi but it was the only brand I could get the same day as everything else) with a 11600k and Radeon 6700xt. My point though is that z series is best for overclocking and xmp.
I have to say, you and Karl are bouncing off of each other perfectly here. haha
Interesting because as a consumer do you want the BEST gaming CPU or the best dollars to performance? Future proof vs value? I love these kinds of videos. I'm building a new PC right now and I went with the i7-12700k since it seemed like the best cost to performance for my setup with an RTX 3080 FE.
That's what I'd pair with it for sure
What mother board did you go with?
@@199isabeast My plan is to try and future proof this system a bit in hopes of scoring an RTX 40 series card within a year of release (fingers crossed). Then I'm going to take the 3080 out and move it to my other PC. That being the case, I went all in on DDR5 with CORSAIR Vengeance 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 5200 RAM, and an ASUS ROG Strix Z690-F mobo.
@@PcCentric 12900ks
Depends on how many dollars you have
I am still rocking with the ryzen 5 3600 it works very well with my Rx 6600xt but maybe need to upgrade soon when I get a new Gpu love your vids and keep up the good work 👌
Nah..itl be fine for a while
Very good, really good style.
This is a great channel. Definitely take the dude's advice.
"Why no 12900KS or 5800X3D?!"
These are terrible value for gaming, and I wouldn't brand those as "gaming CPUs" - they are for people that want to splash the cash and buy the most powerful, regardless of value. Don't buy into the marketing that those are for "gaming", they are for "unlimited budget, fastest gaming!" - which IMO is not the same thing! The benchmarks back this up 💪
am curious why you decided to not pick i5 12600k, since it is one of the most budget friendly high performance cpu's out there, could just be me tho.
also Greta would be mad if you promoted a gaming CPU that needs 180W at full load...(12900KS)
but isn't 5800x3d and i7 12700k almost cost the same ?
But the 5800X3D is nearly the same price as 12700k and is compatible with much cheaper Mobo's... You don't need to "splash cash" and you can compete with a 12900K
@@murffly that is right, also the only purpose of the 5800X3D is gaming, in everything else its a little bit worse then the 5800X
I have recently finished my build in no small part with the reccomendations from this channel and it has been working wonderfully.
Found a nearly MSRP 3070 and coupled it with an i5 12400f which is more than enough as i play on a 2K monitor and have no intentions to go 4k anytime soon.
It was a big upgrade from my frankenstein build made with a DELL OPTIPLEX and a 750ti, which carried my gaming for the last 7 years, until i was able to get a better job.
To be fair, even if at 1080p and at low/med graphics, the 750ti was still able to run the majority of games up to 2021 at around 45 to 65fps.
Nothing to write home about, but for a tiny buget card from 2014 it was quite the feat.
But i am loving what i can do and how pretty everything looks now.
It's a good setup and you should be proud of it... It's your baby 😋
Nice one
750TI was mine for many years but I change recently for RX6600XT because play on 750TI today for 3D games begin to be hard ... 900P60 in med/high option was for me the best option with 750TI but there are some games I can't run like Halo Infinite etc ... But yes, for a great majority of games, all little indie games etc the 750TI is just perfect and I will rebuild an old PC with it for sure ! (a I3 2120 with 8Go of DDR3 and the GTX750TI ! It's perfect for emulator and all little games / indies games and some 3D games !).
@Starlit Remembrance nice build. I'm not quite there yet. One question for my understanding: Shouldn't it be easier for the CPU if you changed from 2K to 4K? 4K would be more stressfull for the GPU, resulting in less FPS. Less FPS in return should be easier for the CPU. Is there something I did not think about? I'm about to change to PC gaming, so right now I'm trying to educate myself as much as possible.
Should i go with ryzen 5 5600x or i5 12400f with 3070 ti ?
Thank you Karl!
good advice and have started to look for your uploads that says loads as im twice your age and bn building for 30 yrs there abouts
I’m so grateful for these videos. Every day someone at work gives me absolute bull info about nvidia/intel/amd etc. a 2 min scan through these videos stop me from wasting 1000s on their advice. I’m just going to assume they’re wrong from now on.
I would recommend the next time to play a match instead of being in a custom lobby without any other players in it when you test competative games. There's a huge difference in dps between having 1 and 10 players in a game.
In Valorant Realisitic numbers for the 5600x are 440 fps and 290 fps for the 12100f in unrated/ranked. Both are good numbers but it's a pretty big difference compared to 549 fps respectively 464 fps in the shart at 15:30 in the video. Considering that the platform cost between the i3 and the R5 processor could be similar, it's a huge reason to buy a 5600x/5600 if you're mainly planning on playing Valorant.
Building my first ever PC tomorrow, have a Ryzen 5 5600X and an RTX 3060, hoping for good outcomes!
Exactly what I wanted to hear. Looking to build a pure gaming PC in the near future, and always get frustrated when I see other reviewers say you have to pair anything north of a 3080 with an i7 or more, when clearly it's not necessary (if only gaming). Thanks!
a 3080 or above is only needed if you wanna 4k game in decent fps 😂
even the 3070 is decent in 4k
@@alto2003 Or high fps at 1440p for non-esport games.
@@barney5011 absolutely, that's what i've used mine for for the last year
@@barney5011 3070 is all you'd need for 1440
if you want budget the 12100f and 12400f are hard to beat for price to performance with the mobo's coming down on pricing too!
Just got this from Amazon made by awd-it 12400f with rtx 3050. Stocked as it's my first gaming pc 😁
New to the pc community. I like this guy.
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You must be one of the only people on this platform that did a semi realistic CPU comparison.
1440p and 4k + a good GPU (maybe a bit overkill here) with higher settings.
i was literally just looking at intel vs amd and what to buy and i see this, you are a wizard my friend ❤️
Great content as always ! Would be nice to add timestamps for sections of the videos .
Im thinking of buying a 12700k/rtx3080 combo but i could wait for 13700k/rtx4080 (or even 4070)
I have updated with timestamps for you :)
@@PcCentric nice
Good luck on getting them, there is a very high chance we'll see the same scalping issues with the 40xx as we saw when the 30xx cards released. Just go with the 12700K/3080 combo as 99% of games still don't use the full power of either of those.
@@PcCentric thank you !
@@Joreel well i would like to achieve over 165 (1% lows )on 1440p everything max . And the 3080 is not there quite yet . Also im a cse student + i havent had a new pc since 2016 .Although u are correct prices COULD increase
Cool video thanks ! Question I have AB350 motherboard can I put a R5 5600x chip on it or will I have to upgrade MB aswell
I haven't built a computer since 2010 so learning about everything again is daunting, but it's good to know that an i3 or i5 is good enough for what me or my son would use. Lort knows I won't ever have the money for a 3090 ti 😂, so there is no need for anything super high end other than bragging rights lol.
hey guys im looking to upgrading my gpu but not sure what kind,
whats a good combo for ryzen 5 2600 6 core? Right now i have a msi gtx 1660 ti
i only play on fortnite im running at 120 fps, im trying to get my game to run at 240fps.
do i have to upgrade my cpu or gpu? if so please tell me the brands you recommended the best
12:55 actually it is a bit how it works if your motherboard cant deliver enugh power because of thermal throttling it can be a bottleneck but its rare
I love that you are talking so fast I can concentrate way better on what you are saying
I got the i9 with a 3090 strix building this weekend.
I think the reason for the difference in FPS for Valorant is due to the cache size difference between zen 3 and 12th gen, zen 3 has more cache
building my first pc and looking for some advice on the pieces I bought and if I should consider changing something up. Asus ROG STRIX Z790-E mobo, i7-13700k, Asus ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 3070 TI OC, and Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 32 GB DDR5-6200. thanks for taking a look!
Thats pretty cool bro
I would kill to have yr setup as I don't even have a potato pc sadly
“I no longer have the skills to pay the bills” classic got my follow 💯🤣
Just got to 7:48 and realized, you cold have used msi after burner overlay to show cpu/gpu percent utilizaton. As well as show clocks and temps so if something is thermal throttling you can know because that test is invalid as your cooling limited not cpu or even gpu limited.
Chill video still though, just some constructive criticism.
Its probably the only link i couldnt find in the description lol. But what are the leaf stem looking lights in the background?
My i5-4690K Haswell series CPU streams at 4K perfectly when armed with my RTX 2070.
If you talk about a previous video (which I'm actually looking for) it would be nice if it actually showed up on the right hand corner :'(
Literally without any more thinking we all agree that this is the best tech channel ever ❤️
Mrwhosetheboss is really good too, but of course this is fantastic.
Yesssssss
Or im just a big simp idk
it's the most entertaining and fun tech channel at the very least
tech source solos
I would like to see you do a production/creator build
thankyouu :)
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I looked at exactly that a few months ago and I went for the 5600x and B550 motherboard. I'm very happy with my PC
Same brother same
I am gonna build the same
@@FactusCactus I got a MSI MAG TOMAHAWK B550 at a decent price. Found intel 12th gen boards to be higher priced at the time I looked
@@closetsimracer wow bro congrats. I got asus b550
Is the new 5600 is good build?
This was so interesting! Did not expect it to be so even at all. What would be the use case for the highest end CPUs outside of gaming however - if one settles for an i5, what can they not do than an i7 could?
Have higher fps
Rendering videos, compiling code, AI stuff without CUDA, etc.
Do you have a video explaining bios and the best bios settings
hey what monitor is that in your intro? It's so clean with no logo. Looks like an LG monitor. Could you please tell me which one it is?
Dude can you make a mid budget build with pop air mini??
Should have had the Ryzen 5800X3D in this benchmark video. It's arguably the best.
Soo expensive though
Completely agree that would have been interesting to see how it performed.
@@zanderallan4373 I agree. Too expensive
I have it in my computer right now. Massive upgrade from a i5-4760 that I had before and its amazing!! Paired with a 3090Ti Suprim.. *dead*
I went with 5900x cause the 3d was too expensive. What I got has extra cores and 64mb of cache.
Hi I’m new to your channel and love your content. I am currently making the switch from console to pc and know nothing about pcs so I’m going through all your videos and learning heaps thank you!! I had a question, if I want to build a pc and connect it to play through a 55” 4K oled tv what will be the biggest things I need to be prepared for? Like will I need a stronger processor, ram, graphics card etc?
Thank you in advance and I look forward to your future videos
Im going for 4K at preferably around 60fps + in most titles so I'll probably be going for an I711700K or something along those lines coupled with a 3080 or a 3080ti.
@Precise. Yeah. I actually just purchased the new 40L off of German Amazon with an RTX 3080, I7 12700K and 32GB of Ram :D
I’m getting ready to build my first pc since 2016. I’m thinking of using a 4060ti and a 12700k. Price of final build is looking like $2000. The 4060ti’s are under $400. I set a budget of $400 for the graphics card.
Hi great vid. I got a geforce 3070 would that be good with a ryzen 5 and would i have to change my motherboard from ryzen 3 which i think ive got now. Thanks
i have a intel i5 6400 with a gtx 1070 and i love it. 4k games easy and always 60fps on my tv.
Im honestly still confused it was good video. Im trying to move off console and never touched a pc in my life but i want to stream and game in 4k what parts would you recommend and should i get it pre built or do it myself
I’m getting a little stronger cpu
then my gpu since I’m going to be needing it for more cpu intensive programs like autocad etc and sticking with intel since I was told it works better with adobe programs
TLDR: Intel i5-12600k or AMD 5800X3G is the best CPU for gaming when considering performance, features, L3 cache, and cost.
Think 5600x and 12400f are so close. If you’re on AM4 already I’d get 5600x. I went 12400f for new build as its newer supports both ddr4 and 5 and is has nice upgrade path think it’s best midrange option
sitting with a i7 9700 (non K) and 3060ti the bottle neck is brutal so this helps alot !
Nice!! Im building my first pc and i went with the i5-12600k and bought a radeon 6900 XT for pretty cheap as an open box from Micro Center. Kind of overkill i guess but judging from the video… all the results were pretty damn similar. Should i still upgrade my cpu?
No
What are you upgrading? You stated you already went with i5-12600k which is better than all these CPUs listed here. So why would you buy something worse if you already spent the money on the 12600k?
Amazing
For me the value proposition is altered by the fact that I was able to upgrade my cpu twice on the same am4 motherboard. I've been using a 5600x for a few months now and I'm not disappointed by the performance. Paired with an rtx 3070 ti I had no problems getting at least 60 fps at 4k in most games I've tried.
What did you have previously
@@donutmike I was using a 3600x, which I moved over to my htpc paired with a gtx 980ti. The performance difference on the cpu side at 4k is not much, but upgrading 2 machines at the same time is nice.
@@patrickmcgovern4004 I have a 3600, it still works great, but with how much improvement ryzen gets each generation compared to Intel, I'm sticking with amd and I will likely get a ryzen 7000 cpu when they launch.
@@alloftheabove8522 me too, especially if they end up making ryzen 7000 skus that are am4 like I've seen them speculating about in some articles I've read. That being said if I do have to go with a new motherboard I'll probably consider going Intel if the price/ performance is significantly better.
This is the only thing I am really stuck with, I am building a Gaming PC and have an MSI 550 Tomahawk board, 3070 Founders Edition CPU....and really can't get my head around which Ryzen processor I need at all. It's driving me mad! Didn't want a massive cooler in the build really either but obviously if that is required....
Purely gaming, any strategy action role-playing large battles might use more faster cores. Do want to use it for music production, science projects, photo video editing. if so you want more than 16GB ram and larger drive storage NVMe, SSD for files.
5600x would suffice
5600x is on a massive sale everywhere rn, you can get it for 200$ us on Amazon, or go for the 5600 non x if gaming. I have had no bottlenecks with a 6800xt at 1080p, beast of a CPU.