$100 CPU Shootout: Comparing the Ryzen 5 5500, Core i3-14100F, & Core i3-12100F

10 pointsposted 12 hours ago
by bushwart
(tomshardware.com)

4 Comments

rspoerri

12 hours ago

Why would you run a benchmark with a for a 100$ cpu with a 5090 GPU!?!

karamanolev

12 hours ago

So that it's as CPU-bottlenecked as possible, thus measuring CPU performance the most. They also noted they ran the test with a 4060 as more representative.

nvme0n1p1

12 hours ago

Open the article and ctrl-f for "5090". The first mention explains why.

antisthenes

7 hours ago

Nothing new here.

12100F was the ultra-budget gaming king 4 years ago and still is now (efficiency too).

Unless you need 6 physical cores for productivity, in which case the 5500 is best (way cheaper per core too at $70/6).