The i3-12100F and Ryzen 5 5500 cost about the same, run on DDR4, don’t heat up, and don’t require a motherboard. Either way, you’ll have interesting options in terms of upgrades. So what to choose from this?
During testing, the presenter also checked how much background activity affects the operation of processors in games.
In synthetic tests, the Ryzen 5 5500 outperformed the two processors (see results below).
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Cyberpunk 2077 was released in 1080p ultra preset. Ryzen 5 took the lead in this game, averaging 83fps (Intel’s 66fps). The minimum frame rate in this case was 45 fps and 33 fps, respectively, the maximum – 109 and 89 fps. The situation was similar under background load: again, AMD outperformed Intel. Averages shown in this case were 63 fps (Ryzen 5 5500) and 48 fps (i3-12100F).
Last of Us ran at 70-80 fps (Intel) and 80-90 fps (AMD) without background load at maximum graphics settings. On rare and very rare events you can expect around 30fps and around 60fps respectively. With background tasks, the i3-12100F gets around 50fps FPS, while the Ryzen 5 5500 gets around 60fps. In general, playing on AMD is much more enjoyable.
A Plague Tale: Requiem was released with ultra preset. On average, we managed to get only 40-50fps with Intel with no background load, and about 50-60fps with Ryzen. However, with AMD, there were drops of up to 10 fps in sharp turns in the game. With occasional background load, the i3-12100F averaged below 30fps, while the Ryzen 5 averaged 50fps.
Battlefield 2042 ran on ultra graphics with an i3-12100F with average FPS above 70fps and rare and very rare events sometimes under 10fps. The situation was much better with Ryzen. The average framerate with it was usually above 100fps. Under background load, the i3’s average FPS was around 60fps, but everything was sad with rare and very rare events. With Ryzen, the average frame rate was 60-70 fps even under load in the background, and it was much more comfortable to play with this processor.
Ghostwire: Tokyo dropped below 20fps on the i3-12100F’s average FPS, around 60-70fps. Ryzen 5 felt much better in this game: on average the framerate often exceeded 100, and drops below 20fps in very rare events were extremely rare. The results don’t change much when daemons are enabled.
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Obviously, the AMD Ryzen 5 5500 performs better in demanding games with and without background load. Playing with this processor was much more comfortable in any case, it was noticeably faster in heavy games. Even with more upgrades, a PC with Ryzen 5 looks more interesting.
test stand:
- Processor Intel Core i3-12100F (4/8 3.3-4.3 GHz)/AMD Ryzen 5 5500 (6/12 3.6-4.2 GHz);
- motherboard Jginyue B760M LGA 1700/Onda A520SD4-W AM4;
- video card Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti
- data store 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3600MHz CL16;
- NVMe SSD 1TB Adata Legend;
- power unit 850 BT XPG Core Reactor;
- cooling system Gammax AG 300.
Source: Ferra
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