i3 12100f: When will it bottleneck your GPU?

When doing a budget build, its important to note that your path to upgrades can be inhibited by the cheaper parts in your build.
Today we are going to look at the Intel i3 12100f and test out multiple levels of GPUs until we start to see a large bottleneck caused by the cpu.

Games used in benchmark:
Red Dead Redemption 2
cyberpunk 2077
Tiny Tinas Wonderlands
Doom Eternal

[Jeremex]

Amazing video, so hard to find videos so informative with such a specific question like this. Loved it. Thanks for the information.

[aarongibbs]

Thank you so much for this video. I am in a position to afford a cpu upgrade but from what I could find out it seemed the 12100 and 3060ti were pretty much a perfect match so upgrading one and not the other made no sense. Thank you for confirming that!

[nelsonmejiaslozada]

i saw the 12400f and great video that one, will watch this too.

Great content.

[shadowsesky]

Thank you very much for the awesome benchmark video with this CPU I recently upgraded my PC with Core i3 12100F currently paired with GTX 960 and now I am saving for the GPU your video helped me set the goal for what GPU I am gonna save for i will surely go with RTX 3060ti without any worries. :D

[cctt]

Oh wow what a throwback, you're using Ape Escape tracks as background music, respect!

[coolkidred]

Thanks! Video was very helpful. got myself a RTX 3060 with 12100f, it was well within budget.

[michaelbauers]

Resolution is very important in this equation, as high resolutions will make the video card run slower, which means less FPS, which generally means the CPU doesn't have to work so hard. I didn't catch what resolution you were using, but it looked like high frame rates, suggesting 1080p. While twitch games (FPS and such) benefit from high FPS, in conjunction with monitors with high refresh rates, for the sorts of game I ( and others play, ) 60fps or so is fine, so no problem running at 4k resolution in many games. As I game on a big screen TV, that can't do better than 60hz anyways, I would never worry about any i series CPU bottlenecking. But a first person shooter player trying to get a high frame rate, understanably so, would certainly care about this topic, and have more of a chance of seeing CPU bottlenecking.

[trastewere]

😅 and I am using the 12100f with RTX 3080.
To be ohnest I play every game locked at 60fps as I am not high framerate person and I must say that the 12100f is perfect for it.

[Chris-yyqc]

Thanks! This helped me a lot chosing a GPU for my 12100f HTPC rig

[yuumi]

give this man a 10000 subs. great video.

[topg]

12100F is a great gem of a cpu, with those clock gen b660 boards you can oc it so itll easily be able to handle even higher end gpus without much bottlenecks

[dinodegracia]

Gpu scaling for cpus are underrated. Nice video!

[DickinsonStrength]

Great vid I had my pc die on me and only parts that survived was my 2070 super so I’ll build a budget 12100f build with that as my gpu

[omidseyfabadi]

I have 12100f with rx 6800 not xt just rx 6800 its very good cpu i give best fps no bottleneck my monitor is 2560.1080 ultra wide and i tested in my tv 4k steel best performane with zero botlleneck in fh5 doom ethernal rdr2 gow re vilage this best buget cpu for ever

[davidduncan]

Looking for this for ages gz u got my sub..

[Albert]

Got this cpu with 3070...no problems at all..gpu utilization at 97-99%

[mrnobody]

Wow, 🤯 Subscribed, its the real tech video 🙏

[DebelakaPGD]

Actually super helpful video, thank you so much.

[erickalvarez]

Yeah so pretty much, the crowds are CPU heavy and requires more cores, my r5 is also bottlenecking my card in Spiderman when having the crowd and RT on, but just reduce the ammount of crowd and the ammount of objects displayed in the reflections and I'm good.
I have this with a 6600 for my second build and lord is so good.

[Nayr]

Going to receive 6600XT I bought for $185 that I'll pair with a 12100f when funds increase. I can already feel the power. Bought gpu early cause it was a major steal for me and I'll be putting it on my brother'a system replacing the 2060 for a bit.