Intel Core i9 12900HX specifications and performance

Intel Core i9 12900HX is a 16 cores and 24 threads CPU processor produced by Intel. Intel Core i9 12900HX was released on 2022-05-10, 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 (32EU).

Basic Information

Vendor / Supplier Intel
Short name i9 12900hx
Release date 2022-05-10
CPU code name Alder Lake
Fabrication process 10nm (nanometer)
Instruction set architecture x86-64
Market Laptop
Integrated Graphics (iGPU) UHD Graphics (32EU)

CPU core specifications

Total number of cores 16 cores
Total number of threads 24 threads
Number of performance cores 8 cores
Number of performance core threads 16 threads
Performance core base frequency / main frequency 2.3GHz
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 1.7GHz
Energy efficiency core maximum turbo frequency 3.6GHz

CPU cache and frequency

Bus frequency 100MHz
L1 Cache 80 KB
L2 Cache 1 MB
L3 Cache 30 MB
Unlock multiplier Yes

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 No

Package specifications

CPU Socket BGA-1964
Default thermal design power / TDP PL1 45W
Maximum Turbo Power Consumption / TDP PL2 157W
Maximum temperature 100°C
PCIe interface PCIe 5.0
PCIe lane count 20

Integrated Graphics specifications

Integrated Graphics (iGPU) Intel UHD Graphics (32EU)
Base frequency 300MHz
Maximum acceleration frequency 1550MHz
Number of execution units 32
Stream Processors / Shading Units 256
Texture Units / TMUs 16
Raster Operations Units / ROPs 8
Total Graphics Power / TGP 45W
FP32 computing performance
0.74TFLOPS

Cinebench R23 performance test

Single core performance score
1894
Multi-core performance score
23048

PassMark performance test

Single core performance score
3835
Multi-core performance score
34268
Integer math 117 GOps/sec
Floating point math 87 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 135 Million Primes/sec (Millions find prime numbers per second)
Random string sorting 45.6 Million Strings/sec (Millions random string sorting per second)
Data encryption 23.8 GBytes/sec (Gigabits per second)
Data compression 415.5 MBytes/sec (megabits per second)
Physics simulation 2047 Frames/sec (FPS)
Extended instruction test 25.2 Billion Matrices/sec (Billions matrix operations per second)

GeekBench v6 performance test

Single core performance
2517
Multi-core performance
14457
File compression 1110 MB/sec (megabits per second)
clang compilation 121.1 Klines/sec (thousands lines per second)
HTML5 browsing 336.5 pages/sec (pages per second)
PDF rendering 382.4 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second)
Text processing 254 pages/sec (pages per second)
Background blur 58.1 images/sec (images per second)
Photo processing 116.9 images/sec (images per second)
Ray tracing 29.6 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second)