SYSTEM ANALYZER

Rate My PC: Intel Core i3-12100F + AMD Radeon RX 6600

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86 / 100
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Top 14% of systems. Excellent for 1440p Ultra or 4K High gaming.

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System Balance Analysis

CPU vs GPU performance ratio
Well Balanced
CPU
81%
VS
GPU
91%
PROCESSOR

Intel Core i3-12100F

13,494 Benchmark Score
Top 19% Market Ranking
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AMD Radeon RX 6600

19,036 Benchmark Score
Top 9% Market Ranking
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Market Position

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Budget
0-30
Mid-Range
30-60
High-End
60-85
Enthusiast
85-100
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Strong Performance

Excellent for 1440p gaming. Most games will run at high/ultra settings smoothly.

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Performance Tiers Explained

90-100

Ultimate

4K Ultra gaming, VR ready, ray tracing enabled, professional workloads

4K 60+ FPS VR Ready
70-89

High-End

1440p Ultra or 4K High settings, excellent for modern AAA titles

1440p Ultra 4K High
50-69

Mid-Range

1080p Ultra or 1440p Medium, great value for most gamers

1080p Ultra 1440p Med
30-49

Entry Level

1080p Medium settings, suitable for eSports and older titles

1080p Med eSports
0-29

Legacy

Basic gaming, older titles, consider upgrading for modern games

720p-1080p Low Older Games

The Intel Core i3-12100F and AMD Radeon RX 6600 pairing represents a balanced entry point into modern desktop computing, combining a capable quad-core processor with a mainstream RDNA 2 graphics card. This combination targets 1080p gaming and productive workloads, with benchmark data indicating a combined percentile of 66 across all tested configurations. The data presented here is measured, providing a reliable basis for evaluating the system's capabilities across a range of applications and gaming scenarios.

GPU Analysis

The AMD Radeon RX 6600 is built on the RDNA 2.0 architecture, utilizing the Navi 23 chip manufactured on a 7 nm process at TSMC. The GPU is equipped with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus, providing a memory bandwidth of 224.0 GB/s. This configuration is sufficient for 1080p gaming and moderate 1440p workloads, though the 8 GB frame buffer can become a limiting factor at higher resolutions or with texture-heavy titles.

Clock speeds are substantial, with a base clock of 1626 MHz, a game clock of 2044 MHz, and a boost clock reaching 2491 MHz. The GPU contains 1792 shading units, 112 texture mapping units, and 64 raster operations pipelines. For ray tracing, it includes 28 dedicated RT cores, though the lack of dedicated tensor cores means AI-accelerated features are not available. The graphics card supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4, ensuring compatibility with modern graphics APIs.

Benchmark results show the GPU achieves a G3D score of 15096 and a GPU compute score of 6554 in PassMark tests. In 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12, it scores 1492. The GPU's average benchmark score is 19036, placing it at the 63rd percentile among all GPUs. Its nearest rivals include the NVIDIA Quadro K6000 with a score of 19030 (0% delta), the GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile at 19049 (-0.1% delta), and the RTX 2000 Ada Generation at 18954 (0.4% delta). These results indicate the RX 6600 performs nearly identically to these competitors, with negligible performance differences. For rendering workloads, the FP32 performance of 8.928 TFLOPS and texture rate of 279.0 GTexel/s provide adequate compute for real-time graphics, while the pixel rate of 159.4 GPixel/s supports smooth rasterization at standard resolutions.

Gaming Performance

Measured FPS data at ultra settings reveals a clear pattern: the RX 6600 excels at 1920x1080, provides playable performance at 2560x1440, and struggles at 3840x2160. Across the tested game library, the average FPS is 94.8, with the pair ranking 2889 out of 3732 total pairings.

At 1080p, esports and lighter titles perform exceptionally well. Valorant achieves 325.4 FPS, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive reaches 314 FPS, and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege X manages 172.8 FPS. Counter-Strike 2 runs at 143.4 FPS, and Roblox hits 182.1 FPS. More demanding AAA games see lower but still playable numbers: Call of Duty: Warzone runs at 133.2 FPS, Doom at 106 FPS, and Assetto Corsa at 84.1 FPS. Cyberpunk 2077 is a notable exception, dropping to 40.6 FPS, while Red Dead Redemption 2 runs at 37.7 FPS.

Moving to 1440p, performance scales down predictably. Valorant still delivers 278.7 FPS, and Call of Duty: Warzone remains smooth at 117.8 FPS. Counter-Strike 2 drops to 96.1 FPS, and Roblox runs at 121.5 FPS. However, demanding titles become marginal: Cyberpunk 2077 drops to 31.5 FPS, Red Dead Redemption 2 to 28.4 FPS, and Control to 47.1 FPS. The Medium is nearly unplayable at 22.8 FPS.

At 4K, the GPU is beyond its comfort zone. Most games fall below 60 FPS, with Valorant being a strong exception at 219 FPS. Call of Duty: Warzone manages 99.1 FPS, and Roblox runs at 71.6 FPS. However, demanding titles like Cyberpunk 2077 (20 FPS), Red Dead Redemption 2 (16.5 FPS), and Ark: Survival Ascended (7 FPS) are not viable at this resolution. The data clearly shows that 1080p is the intended target, with 1440p being acceptable for less demanding or competitive titles.

CPU Analysis

The Intel Core i3-12100F is a 4-core, 8-thread processor based on the Alder Lake architecture, built on Intel's 10 nm process. It has a base clock of 3.30 GHz and a boost clock of 4.30 GHz, with a TDP of 58 W. The CPU supports dual-channel DDR4 and DDR5 memory and provides PCIe Gen 5 with 16 lanes from the CPU. The cache hierarchy includes 80 KB of L1 cache per core, 1.25 MB of L2 cache per core, and 12 MB of shared L3 cache.

Benchmark results show strong single-thread performance relative to its core count. The 3DMark single-thread score is 893, while the 2-thread score is 1659. Multi-threaded scaling is evident in the 4-thread score of 2859 and the 8-thread score of 4026, which closely matches the max-thread score of 4023. This indicates the processor effectively utilizes its 8 threads. In Cinebench R23, it scores 1674 in single-core and 11860 in multi-core. Geekbench results show 1932 single-core and 7252 multi-core.

The CPU's average benchmark score is 13494, placing it at the 68th percentile among all CPUs. Its nearest rivals are the Intel Core 3 N355 (13492, 0% delta), Intel Core i5-9500 (13452, 0.3% delta), Intel Core 5 120UL (13594, -0.7% delta), and Intel Core i7-1250U (13351, 1.1% delta). These comparisons show the i3-12100F sits in a competitive position, trading blows with older i5 and newer lower-power parts. PassMark tests reveal strengths in integer math (40978) and floating-point math (31977), with data encryption at 8071 and compression at 160452. The single-thread score of 3444 confirms its strength in lightly threaded workloads, while the multithread score of 14015 reflects its 8-thread capability.

Balance and Bottleneck

The system's balance is defined by the relationship between the CPU's 4-core/8-thread design and the GPU's 8 GB memory configuration. At 1080p, the CPU and GPU are well-matched, with the GPU often being the limiting factor in demanding titles. The measured FPS data supports this: in games like Cyberpunk 2077 (40.6 FPS) and Red Dead Redemption 2 (37.7 FPS), the GPU is clearly the bottleneck, as CPU performance is sufficient for these workloads.

At higher resolutions, the GPU becomes the dominant bottleneck. The transition from 1080p to 1440p in Cyberpunk 2077 shows a 22.4% drop in FPS (from 40.6 to 31.5), while the drop to 4K (20 FPS) represents another 36.5% reduction. This scaling is consistent with GPU-bound scenarios where the 8 GB frame buffer and 224.0 GB/s bandwidth are strained. Conversely, in less demanding titles like Valorant, the CPU's single-thread performance (3444 PassMark score) allows the GPU to operate at high frame rates, with FPS dropping from 325.4 at 1080p to 278.7 at 1440p—a smaller percentage decline than GPU-heavy titles.

The CPU's 8-thread scaling is a potential bottleneck in heavily multi-threaded games. The 3DMark scores show 4-thread performance (2859) is only 28.9% lower than 8-thread (4026), indicating that games utilizing more than 4 threads will see diminishing returns. However, the CPU's high single-thread score (893 in 3DMark) ensures that most games, which rely heavily on single-thread performance, will not be CPU-limited at 1080p. The combined percentile of 66 reflects this balance—neither component severely bottlenecks the other in the system's intended use case.

Benchmark Performance

The CPU and GPU present distinct but complementary performance profiles. The Intel Core i3-12100F achieves an average benchmark score of 13494, ranking at the 68th percentile among all CPUs. Its strongest results are in Cinebench R23 multi-core (11860) and PassMark multithread (14015), while the single-core Cinebench R23 score of 1674 demonstrates solid per-thread performance. The GPU, meanwhile, scores 19036 on average, placing it at the 63rd percentile among all GPUs, with a PassMark G3D score of 15096.

The combined picture shows a system that is slightly stronger on the CPU side. The CPU's 68th percentile ranking is 5 points higher than the GPU's 63rd percentile, indicating the processor outperforms the graphics card relative to their respective markets. This is reflected in the pair's combined percentile of 66. The average FPS across all tested games is 94.8, which suggests the pairing delivers smooth performance in the majority of titles at reasonable settings.

In terms of rival comparisons, the CPU is effectively tied with the Intel Core 3 N355 (0% delta), while the GPU is tied with the NVIDIA Quadro K6000 (0% delta). This indicates that both components are positioned in the middle of the performance spectrum, neither leading nor trailing their direct competitors by a meaningful margin. The benchmark data shows a system that is competent across the board, with no single component dramatically outperforming the other.

Who Should Build It

This configuration targets users who prioritize 1080p gaming and everyday productivity without requiring extreme performance. Gamers playing at 1920x1080 will find the system well-suited, with measured FPS exceeding 60 in most titles and exceeding 100 in competitive games like Valorant (325.4 FPS) and Call of Duty: Warzone (133.2 FPS). The 8 GB VRAM is adequate for current game textures at this resolution.

Content creators working with light video editing or 2D graphics will benefit from the CPU's Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 11860 and the GPU's compute capabilities (PassMark GPU compute score of 6554). Software developers compiling code will appreciate the PassMark data encryption score of 8071 and the multithread score of 14015. Students and small business users handling office applications, web browsing, and spreadsheet work will find the single-thread performance (PassMark single-thread score of 3444) more than sufficient.

The system is less suitable for 4K gaming, where the GPU's 8 GB memory and 224.0 GB/s bandwidth prove insufficient, as evidenced by sub-30 FPS in many titles at 3840x2160. Similarly, professional 3D rendering workloads that leverage extensive multi-threading will be limited by the CPU's 4 cores. This build is not aimed at enthusiasts seeking maximum performance, but rather at users seeking a capable, balanced system for mainstream tasks.

Usage Scenarios

High-refresh gaming: At 1080p, the system delivers excellent frame rates for competitive play. Valorant achieves 325.4 FPS, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive reaches 314 FPS, and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege X runs at 172.8 FPS, all exceeding the 144 Hz refresh rate common in gaming monitors. Call of Duty: Warzone at 133.2 FPS also supports high-refresh displays.

Streaming: The CPU's 8 threads and PassMark multithread score of 14015 provide adequate encoding headroom for 1080p streaming, while the GPU's 8 GB VRAM handles the gaming workload. However, the lack of dedicated tensor cores means no AI-accelerated encoding features, and the CPU's 4 physical cores may struggle with game-plus-encode workloads in demanding titles like Cyberpunk 2077 (40.6 FPS at 1080p).

Video editing: The CPU's Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 11860 and PassMark extended instructions score of 10842 support 1080p video editing and export tasks. The GPU's FP32 performance of 8.928 TFLOPS assists with effects and rendering, though 4K editing will be limited by the 8 GB VRAM and the CPU's 4-core configuration.

3D rendering: The CPU's PassMark floating-point math score of 31977 and the GPU's 1792 shading units provide moderate rendering performance. Single-frame renders in software like Blender will be workable, but complex scenes will benefit from systems with more cores. The GPU's 28 RT cores enable basic ray-traced rendering, though performance will be modest.

Software development: The CPU's strong single-thread performance (Geekbench single-core score of 1932) ensures responsive compilation of smaller projects, while the PassMark integer math score of 40978 supports general computing tasks. Data compression (160452) and encryption (8071) scores indicate solid performance for build processes and file handling.

Student and office work: This scenario is well-served by the system. The CPU's single-thread performance (PassMark score of 3444) handles everyday applications with ease, and the GPU's capabilities are more than sufficient for document processing, spreadsheets, and web browsing. The measured FPS in lighter games like Minecraft (140.6 FPS at 1080p) shows the system can handle casual entertainment without issue.

FAQ

Q: What is the combined performance percentile of this CPU and GPU pairing?

A: The combined percentile is 66, indicating the system outperforms 66% of all tested desktop configurations.

Q: How does the RX 6600 compare to its nearest rival, the NVIDIA Quadro K6000?

A: The RX 6600 has an average benchmark score of 19036, while the Quadro K6000 scores 19030, resulting in a 0% delta—they are effectively tied in performance.

Q: What is the maximum FPS achievable in Valorant at 1080p?

A: At 1920x1080 with ultra settings, Valorant achieves 325.4 FPS, which is the highest measured FPS across all tested games at this resolution.

Q: Does the CPU support DDR5 memory?

A: Yes, the Intel Core i3-12100F supports both DDR4 and DDR5 memory, with dual-channel memory bus support.

Q: What is the GPU's memory bandwidth and how does it affect performance?

A: The RX 6600 has a memory bandwidth of 224.0 GB/s over a 128-bit bus. This is sufficient for 1080p gaming but contributes to significant FPS drops at higher resolutions, as seen in Cyberpunk 2077 dropping from 40.6 FPS at 1080p to 20 FPS at 4K.

Q: Is this system suitable for 4K gaming?

A: No. Measured data shows most demanding games run below 30 FPS at 3840x2160, with titles like Red Dead Redemption 2 at 16.5 FPS and Ark: Survival Ascended at 7 FPS.

Q: What is the average FPS across all tested games?

A: The average FPS across all games in the measured dataset is 94.8, with the pair ranking 2889 out of 3732 tested pairings.

Upgrade Path and Platform

The system is built on the Intel Socket 1700 platform, supporting both DDR4 and DDR5 memory with dual-channel configuration. The CPU provides PCIe Gen 5 with 16 lanes, while the GPU uses a PCIe 4.0 x8 interface. The CPU's TDP is 58 W, and the GPU's TDP is 132 W, with a suggested PSU of 300 W. The GPU requires a single 8-pin power connector and occupies a dual-slot form factor, measuring 190 mm in length.

A sensible next upgrade path would focus on the GPU, as the CPU's 4-core/8-thread design is sufficient for most gaming workloads but the GPU's 8 GB VRAM is the primary limiting factor at higher resolutions. The CPU's boost clock of 4.30 GHz and 12 MB L3 cache provide a solid foundation, but upgrading to a higher-core-count processor on the same socket would improve multi-threaded performance for content creation. The platform's support for both DDR4 and DDR5 gives flexibility in memory upgrades, though the current configuration's memory bandwidth is not listed as a bottleneck. The 300 W suggested PSU indicates headroom for a modest GPU upgrade without requiring a new power supply, provided the new graphics card respects the same power envelope. The socket has been used across multiple generations, offering options for future CPU upgrades without changing the motherboard.