Intel Core i9 12900K specifications and performance
Intel Core i9 12900K is a 16 cores and 24 threads CPU processor produced by Intel. Intel Core i9 12900K was released on 2021-10-27, 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.
| Vendor / Supplier | Intel |
|---|---|
| Short name | i9 12900k |
| Release date | 2021-10-27 |
| CPU code name | Alder Lake |
| Fabrication process | 10nm (nanometer) |
| Instruction set architecture | x86-64 |
| Market | Desktop |
| Integrated Graphics (iGPU) | UHD Graphics 770 |
| 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 | 3.2GHz |
| Performance core maximum turbo frequency | 5.1GHz |
| Number of energy efficiency cores | 8 cores |
| Number of energy-efficient core threads | 8 threads |
| Energy efficiency core basic frequency / main frequency | 2.4GHz |
| Energy efficiency core maximum turbo frequency | 3.9GHz |
| Bus frequency | 100MHz |
|---|---|
| L1 Cache | 64 KB |
| L2 Cache | 14 MB |
| L3 Cache | 30 MB |
| Unlock multiplier | Yes |
| Maximum supported memory | 128GB |
|---|---|
| Memory frequency support |
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| Maximum number of memory channels | 2 |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 76.8GB/s |
| ECC support | Yes |
| CPU Socket | LGA-1700 |
|---|---|
| Default thermal design power / TDP PL1 | 125W |
| Maximum Turbo Power Consumption / TDP PL2 | |
| Maximum temperature | 100°C |
| PCIe interface | PCIe 5.0 |
| PCIe lane count | 20 |
| Integrated Graphics (iGPU) | Intel UHD Graphics 770 |
|---|---|
| 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 | 15W |
| FP32 computing performance |
0.78TFLOPS
|
| Single core performance score |
1994
|
|---|---|
| Multi-core performance score |
27163
|
| Single core performance score |
4167
|
|---|---|
| Multi-core performance score |
41404
|
| Integer math | 139 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 106 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 149 Million Primes/sec (Millions find prime numbers per second) |
| Random string sorting | 57.3 Million Strings/sec (Millions random string sorting per second) |
| Data encryption | 29.7 GBytes/sec (Gigabits per second) |
| Data compression | 539.7 MBytes/sec (megabits per second) |
| Physics simulation | 2227 Frames/sec (FPS) |
| Extended instruction test | 33.8 Billion Matrices/sec (Billions matrix operations per second) |
| Single core performance |
2633
|
|---|---|
| Multi-core performance |
17003
|
| File compression | 1260 MB/sec (megabits per second) |
| clang compilation | 146.1 Klines/sec (thousands lines per second) |
| HTML5 browsing | 414.2 pages/sec (pages per second) |
| PDF rendering | 480.2 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second) |
| Text processing | 273.2 pages/sec (pages per second) |
| Background blur | 69.4 images/sec (images per second) |
| Photo processing | 147.8 images/sec (images per second) |
| Ray tracing | 34.4 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second) |