Today we want to question where the upcoming Core i5-12400 can still score to some extent apart from colorful gaming worlds and whether it will remain just as frugal and efficient. Gaming is actually overrated when you take a closer look at the benchmarks from 1440p. Thus, the true strengths of the new architecture will hardly be seen while gaming, but I wonder if it will still look like that in the workstation test and without the small E-cores.

Even though I’m not under NDA, I’m remaining fair enough in today’s follow-up to deliberately use an emulated CPU and none of the Engineering (ES) or Qualified Samples (QS) that were helpfully offered to me outside of the Intel influencer universe. However, I took the liberty to check an important part of my results with a QS (QYHX) for plausibility, so that I really get everything exactly right.