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Intel Core i7-12700 vs Intel Core i7-4770

Last updated: 2026-07-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-12700

Rank 2 - 50 %

Intel Core i7-4770

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-12700

Rank 2 - 26 %

Intel Core i7-4770

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

12C / 20T · 4.90 GHz

1,862 pts

4C / 8T · 3.90 GHz

969 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

12C / 20T · 4.00 GHz

21,568 pts

4C / 8T · 3.60 GHz

4,415 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

12C / 20T · 4.90 GHz

2,497

4C / 8T · 3.90 GHz

1,102

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

12C / 20T · 4.00 GHz

12,448

4C / 8T · 3.60 GHz

3,740

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

12C / 20T · 4.90 GHz

1,712

4C / 8T · 3.90 GHz

914

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

12C / 20T · 4.00 GHz

11,650

4C / 8T · 3.60 GHz

3,367

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel UHD Graphics 770

768

Intel HD Graphics 4600

384

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
Multi-core performance

12C / 20T · 4.00 GHz

284

4C / 8T · 3.60 GHz

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

12C / 20T · 4.90 GHz

259 cb

4C / 8T · 3.90 GHz

141 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

12C / 20T · 4.00 GHz

3,140 cb

4C / 8T · 3.60 GHz

690 cb

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700	Intel Core i7-4770
Family	Intel Core i7 (300)	Intel Core i7 (300)
CPU group	Intel Core i 12000 (34)	Intel Core i 4000 (64)
Architecture	Alder Lake S	Haswell S
Technology	10 nm	22 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	LGA 1700	LGA 1150
Predecessor	Intel Core i7-11700	Intel Core i7-3770
Successor	Intel Core i7-13700

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700	Intel Core i7-4770
CPU Cores / Threads	12 / 20	4 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	8x Golden Cove 2.10 - 4.90 GHz	4x 3.40 - 3.90 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Gracemont 1.60 - 3.60 GHz
L2-Cache	12.00 MB
L3-Cache	25.00 MB	8.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700	Intel Core i7-4770
GPU name	Intel UHD Graphics 770	Intel HD Graphics 4600
GPU frequency	0.30 - 1.50 GHz	0.35 - 1.20 GHz
CUs / Shader	32 / 256	20 / 160
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	64 GB	2 GB
Technology	10 nm	22 nm
Release date	Q4/2021	Q2/2013

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700	Intel Core i7-4770
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700	Intel Core i7-4770
Memory	DDR5-4800 (76.8 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s) DDR3L-1600 (25.6 GB/s) DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s) DDR3L-1333 (21.3 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	5.0 x 20	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	78.8 GB/s	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700	Intel Core i7-4770
TDP	65 W	84 W
TDP (PL2)	180 W
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700	Intel Core i7-4770
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX2+	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q1/2022	Q2/2013
Release price	339 $	280 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i7-12700 is 4.4 stars (93 ratings), while Intel Core i7-4770 has received 3.9 stars (86 ratings).

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Intel Core i7-12700
12C / 20T · 2.10 - 4.90 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i7-4770
4C / 8T · 3.40 - 3.90 GHz

★★★★★