Question What's better? Gtx 1650 super & i5 12400f or Rtx 2060 & i3 12100

[justinapay]

Help me choose. Budget is 1000$.

 

[egda23]

Depends if the programs you use are mainly CPU bound or GPU bound

 

[hang-the-9]

For gaming I would go with the faster video card and bit slower CPU, you can even get the version without a video chipset enabled for cheaper, the i3-12100F. If you don't really care about having integrated video in the system if something happens to the video card. I don't think the new i3 will be cpu limited with the 2060 in most games.

 

[KyaraM]

Depends on what you want to do with it. If it is for gaming, definitely the latter, the 12100 is no slouch and the 2060 is quite a lot better than the 1650. For applications, if you don't strictly need a GPU for them, even integrated graphics, or a Ryzen APU, might siffice.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

If only gaming, the i3 for sure. You can look up the good old gamer on youtube. He did some tests of that i3 vs a Ryzen 3700x and it fared pretty well. You could consider a Ryzen 5500 or 5600. Usually the motherboards are a bit less for AMD than intel depending what you are getting. But as others said it depends a lot on what you are doing.

 

[punkncat]

Didn't another user(name) ask this exact question a week or so ago?