Intel Core i9 12900H specifications and performance

Intel Core i9 12900H is a 14 cores and 20 threads CPU processor produced by Intel. Intel Core i9 12900H 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 Iris Xe Graphics (96EU).

Basic Information

Vendor / Supplier Intel
Short name i9 12900h
Release date 2022-01-04
CPU code name Alder Lake
Fabrication process 10nm (nanometer)
Instruction set architecture x86-64
Market Laptop
Integrated Graphics (iGPU) Iris Xe Graphics (96EU)

CPU core specifications

Total number of cores 14 cores
Total number of threads 20 threads
Number of performance cores 6 cores
Number of performance core threads 12 threads
Performance core base frequency / main frequency 2.5GHz
Performance core maximum turbo frequency 5.0GHz
Number of energy efficiency cores 8 cores
Number of energy-efficient core threads 8 threads
Energy efficiency core basic frequency / main frequency 1.8GHz
Energy efficiency core maximum turbo frequency 3.8GHz

CPU cache and frequency

Bus frequency 100MHz
L1 Cache 80 KB
L2 Cache 1 MB
L3 Cache 24 MB
Unlock multiplier No

Memory specifications

Maximum supported memory 64GB
Memory frequency support
  • - DDR5-4800MHz
  • - DDR4-3200MHz
  • - LPDDR5-5200MHz
  • - LPDDR4x-4267MHz
Maximum number of memory channels 2
Maximum memory bandwidth
ECC support No

Package specifications

CPU Socket BGA-1744
Default thermal design power / TDP PL1 35W
Maximum Turbo Power Consumption / TDP PL2 115W
Maximum temperature 100°C
PCIe interface PCIe 4.0
PCIe lane count 28

Integrated Graphics specifications

Integrated Graphics (iGPU) Intel Iris Xe Graphics (96EU)
Base frequency 300MHz
Maximum acceleration frequency 1450MHz
Number of execution units 96
Stream Processors / Shading Units 768
Texture Units / TMUs 48
Raster Operations Units / ROPs 24
Total Graphics Power / TGP 15W
FP32 computing performance
1.69TFLOPS

Cinebench R23 performance test

Single core performance score
1911
Multi-core performance score
16722

PassMark performance test

Single core performance score
3848
Multi-core performance score
28575
Integer math 98 GOps/sec
Floating point math 71 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 110 Million Primes/sec (Millions find prime numbers per second)
Random string sorting 37.2 Million Strings/sec (Millions random string sorting per second)
Data encryption 19.5 GBytes/sec (Gigabits per second)
Data compression 332.2 MBytes/sec (megabits per second)
Physics simulation 1807 Frames/sec (FPS)
Extended instruction test 19.8 Billion Matrices/sec (Billions matrix operations per second)

GeekBench v6 performance test

Single core performance
2257
Multi-core performance
10627
File compression 871.4 MB/sec (megabits per second)
clang compilation 77.8 Klines/sec (thousands lines per second)
HTML5 browsing 259.3 pages/sec (pages per second)
PDF rendering 296.2 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second)
Text processing 224.7 pages/sec (pages per second)
Background blur 46.7 images/sec (images per second)
Photo processing 92.7 images/sec (images per second)
Ray tracing 17.8 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second)