High Value Intel Alder Lake CPUs are coming – i5 and i3 pricing leaks

Intel’s 12th Gen i5 and i3 processors promise great gaming value and low pricing

At CES 2021, Intel’s reportedly planning to launch a new wave of 12th generation Alder Lake series processors. These lower-end models are designed to deliver customers high levels of performance on a budget, bringing strong competition to AMD’s Ryzen lineup.

These processors have the potential to be value gaming kings, with Intel’s i5-12400F being a highlight given its use of six P-Cores and its sub-$200 pricing.

In the US, the retailer BestBuy has leaked the pricing of Intel’s soon-to-be announced 65W Intel 12th Generation Alder Lake processors. This leaked information came to light thanks to @momomo_us on Twitter.

Below are the leaked prices of Intel’s 12th Generation Alder Lake processors;

– Core i9-12900 – 529.99 USD
– Core i9-12900F – 509.99 USD
– Core i7-12700 – 359.99 USD
– Core i7-12700F – 329.99 USD
– Core i5-12600 – 239.99 USD
– Core i5-12500 – 219.99 USD
– Core i5-12400 – 209.99 USD
– Core i5-12400F – 179.99 USD
– Core i3-12100 – 139.99 USD
– Core i3-12100F – 109.99 USD
– Pentium G7400 – 79.99 USD
– Pentium G6900 – 59.99 USD

  
These processors have tonnes of budget gaming potential

These low-cost Alder Lake processors have the potential to be game changers within the budget gaming market, offering the power of Intel’s Alder Lake P-cores within affordable packages.

Intel’s Alder Lake P-cores offer users a significant performance enhancement over Intel’s 11th Generation Rocket Lake CPU cores, giving processors like Intel’s i5-12400F and i3-12100F a lot of performance for their listed prices.

Intel’s i3-12100F is expected to handily outperform older quad-core processors like Intel’s i7-7700K, which remains a strong gaming processor for many modern titles. Intel’s i5-12400F is arguably Intel’s Value king, offering users six cores and twelve threads for $179.99. 

If Intel’s B660 series motherboards are priced well, Intel’s new i3 and i5 processors will steal the thunder of AMD’s sub-$200 Ryzen product lines, none of which have been updated to use AMD’s Zen 3 CPU cores. 

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