Intel Core i5 12600 specifications and performance

Intel Core i5 12600 is a 6 cores and 12 threads CPU processor produced by Intel. Intel Core i5 12600 was released on 2022-01-04, the fabrication process is 10nm (nanometer), the CPU codename is Alder Lake, the instruction set architecture is x86-64, and the CPU's integrated graphics (iGPU) is UHD Graphics 770.

Basic Information

Vendor / Supplier Intel
Short name i5 12600
Release date 2022-01-04
CPU code name Alder Lake
Fabrication process 10nm (nanometer)
Instruction set architecture x86-64
Market Desktop
Integrated Graphics (iGPU) UHD Graphics 770

CPU core specifications

Total number of cores 6 cores
Total number of threads 12 threads
Number of performance cores 6 cores
Number of performance core threads 12 threads
Performance core base frequency / main frequency 3.3GHz
Performance core maximum turbo frequency 4.8GHz
Number of energy efficiency cores
Number of energy-efficient core threads
Energy efficiency core basic frequency / main frequency
Energy efficiency core maximum turbo frequency

CPU cache and frequency

Bus frequency 100MHz
L1 Cache 80 KB
L2 Cache 1 MB
L3 Cache 18 MB
Unlock multiplier No

Memory specifications

Maximum supported memory 128GB
Memory frequency support
  • - DDR5-4800MHz
  • - DDR4-3200MHz
Maximum number of memory channels 2
Maximum memory bandwidth 76.8GB/s
ECC support Yes

Package specifications

CPU Socket LGA-1700
Default thermal design power / TDP PL1 65W
Maximum Turbo Power Consumption / TDP PL2 117W
Maximum temperature 100°C
PCIe interface PCIe 5.0
PCIe lane count 20

Integrated Graphics specifications

Integrated Graphics (iGPU) Intel UHD Graphics 770
Base frequency 300MHz
Maximum acceleration frequency 1450MHz
Number of execution units 32
Stream Processors / Shading Units 256
Texture Units / TMUs 16
Raster Operations Units / ROPs 8
Total Graphics Power / TGP 15W
FP32 computing performance
0.78TFLOPS

Cinebench R23 performance test

Single core performance score
1846
Multi-core performance score
13390

PassMark performance test

Single core performance score
3820
Multi-core performance score
21296
Integer math 66 GOps/sec
Floating point math 51 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 84 Million Primes/sec (Millions find prime numbers per second)
Random string sorting 24.7 Million Strings/sec (Millions random string sorting per second)
Data encryption 12.8 GBytes/sec (Gigabits per second)
Data compression 255 MBytes/sec (megabits per second)
Physics simulation 1290 Frames/sec (FPS)
Extended instruction test 17.2 Billion Matrices/sec (Billions matrix operations per second)

GeekBench v6 performance test

Single core performance
2551
Multi-core performance
10465
File compression 854.5 MB/sec (megabits per second)
clang compilation 68.9 Klines/sec (thousands lines per second)
HTML5 browsing 242.2 pages/sec (pages per second)
PDF rendering 289.5 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second)
Text processing 247.7 pages/sec (pages per second)
Background blur 54 images/sec (images per second)
Photo processing 91.1 images/sec (images per second)
Ray tracing 17.4 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second)