Intel Core i5-12600 Benchmark, Test and specs

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The Intel Core i5-12600 has 6 cores with 12 threads and is based on the 12. gen of the Intel Core i5 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the LGA 1700 socket and was released in Q1/2022. The Intel Core i5-12600 scores 1,958 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 9,075 points.
Intel Core i5-12600

CPU lineage

The segment in which we have classified the Intel Core i5-12600. Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the Intel Core i5-12600.

Name: Intel Core i5-12600
Family: Intel Core i5 (328)
CPU group: Intel Core i 12000 (34)
Architecture: Alder Lake S
Segment: Desktop / Server
Generation: 12
Predecessor: Intel Core i5-11600
Successor: Intel Core i5-13600

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i5-12600 has 6 CPU cores and can calculate 12 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i5-12600 is 3.30 GHz (4.80 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads: 6 / 12
Core architecture: normal
Cores: 6x Golden Cove
Hyperthreading / SMT: Yes
Overclocking: No
Frequency: 3.30 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core): 4.80 GHz
Turbo Frequency (6 Cores): 4.40 GHz

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i5-12600 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i5-12600 uses the Intel UHD Graphics 770, which has 256 texture shaders and 32 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name: Intel UHD Graphics 770
GPU frequency: 0.30 GHz
GPU (Turbo): 1.45 GHz
Compute units: 32
Shader: 256
Hardware Raytracing: No
Release date: Q4/2021
Max. displays: 3
Generation: 11
Direct X: 12
Technology: 10 nm
Max. GPU Memory: 64 GB
Frame Generation: No

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit): Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit): Decode / Encode
h264: Decode / Encode
VP8: Decode / Encode
VP9: Decode / Encode
AV1: Decode
AVC: Decode / Encode
VC-1: Decode
JPEG: Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The processor can use up to 128 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 76.8 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:
DDR5-4800
DDR4-3200
76.8 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Max. Memory: 128 GB
Memory channels: 2 (Dual Channel)
ECC: Yes
PCIe: 5.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth: 78.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 65 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP): 65 W
TDP (PL2): 117 W
TDP up: --
TDP down: --
Tjunction max.: 100 °C

Technical details

The Intel Core i5-12600 is made in 10 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 25.50 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology: 10 nm
Chip design: Monolithic
Socket: LGA 1700
L2-Cache: 7.50 MB
L3-Cache: 18.00 MB
AES-NI: Yes
Operating systems: Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Virtualization: VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Instruction set (ISA): x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions: SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX2+
Release date: Q1/2022
Release price: 223 $
Part Number: --
Documents: Technical data sheet

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Benchmark results

Verified Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Core i5-12600 have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.


Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i9-12900 Intel Core i9-12900
16C 24T @ 5.10 GHz
1968
Intel Core i9-12900F Intel Core i9-12900F
16C 24T @ 5.10 GHz
1968
AMD Ryzen 5 8500G AMD Ryzen 5 8500G
6C 12T @ 5.00 GHz
1965
Intel Core i5-12600 Intel Core i5-12600
6C 12T @ 4.80 GHz
1958
Intel Core i5-13600KF Intel Core i5-13600KF
14C 20T @ 5.10 GHz
1955
Intel Core i5-13600K Intel Core i5-13600K
14C 20T @ 5.10 GHz
1955
Intel Core i9-12900E Intel Core i9-12900E
16C 24T @ 5.00 GHz
1952

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i5-1340P Intel Core i5-1340P
12C 16T @ 1.80 GHz
9125
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X
12C 24T @ 3.60 GHz
9122
Intel Core i7-1260P Intel Core i7-1260P
12C 16T @ 3.10 GHz
9088
Intel Core i5-12600 Intel Core i5-12600
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz
9075
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X AMD Ryzen 7 3800X
8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz
9065
Intel Core i7-11850H Intel Core i7-11850H
8C 16T @ 3.60 GHz
9045
Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4 Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4
14C 28T @ 2.40 GHz
9036

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz
2397
Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU) Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
8C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
2397
Intel Core i7-12700T Intel Core i7-12700T
12C 20T @ 4.70 GHz
2389
Intel Core i5-12600 Intel Core i5-12600
6C 12T @ 4.80 GHz
2386
Intel Core i5-13400E Intel Core i5-13400E
10C 16T @ 4.60 GHz
2375
Intel Core i5-13500E Intel Core i5-13500E
14C 20T @ 4.60 GHz
2375
Intel Core i5-13500T Intel Core i5-13500T
14C 20T @ 4.60 GHz
2375

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Intel Core i7-12650H Intel Core i7-12650H
10C 16T @ 3.80 GHz
10411
Intel Core i5-12500 Intel Core i5-12500
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz
10401
AMD Ryzen 7 5800 AMD Ryzen 7 5800
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
10397
Intel Core i5-12600 Intel Core i5-12600
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz
10379
AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS
6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz
10357
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7640HS AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7640HS
6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz
10357
AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS
6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz
10357

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Intel Core i7-4750HQ Intel Core i7-4750HQ
Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 @ 1.20 GHz
768
Apple A14 Bionic Apple A14 Bionic
Apple A14 @ 1.46 GHz
749
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
Qualcomm Adreno 730 @ 0.82 GHz
745
Intel Core i5-12600 Intel Core i5-12600
Intel UHD Graphics 770 @ 1.45 GHz
742
Intel Core i7-12650HX Intel Core i7-12650HX
Intel UHD Graphics 770 @ 1.45 GHz
742
Intel Core i7-12800HX Intel Core i7-12800HX
Intel UHD Graphics 770 @ 1.45 GHz
742
Intel Core i5-11500B Intel Core i5-11500B
Intel UHD Graphics 11th Gen (32 EU) @ 1.45 GHz
742

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.50 GHz
21532
AMD Ryzen 7 7735U AMD Ryzen 7 7735U
8C 16T @ 2.70 GHz
21490
Intel Xeon Gold 5218T Intel Xeon Gold 5218T
16C 32T @ 2.30 GHz
21452
Intel Core i5-12600 Intel Core i5-12600
6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz
21430
Intel Core i7-12700TE Intel Core i7-12700TE
12C 20T @ 3.20 GHz
21412
Intel Core i7-1360P Intel Core i7-1360P
12C 16T @ 2.20 GHz
21402
AMD Ryzen 9 5900H AMD Ryzen 9 5900H
8C 16T @ 3.10 GHz
21400

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Intel Core i9-9900 Intel Core i9-9900
8C 16T @ 3.10 GHz
5010
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750GE AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750GE
8C 16T @ 3.10 GHz
4994
Intel Core i5-12490F Intel Core i5-12490F
6C 12T @ 3.00 GHz
4993
Intel Core i5-12600 Intel Core i5-12600
6C 12T @ 3.30 GHz
4990
Intel Xeon W-10885M Intel Xeon W-10885M
8C 16T @ 2.40 GHz
4955
Intel Core i7-11850H Intel Core i7-11850H
8C 16T @ 2.50 GHz
4899
AMD Ryzen 7 4800H AMD Ryzen 7 4800H
8C 16T @ 2.90 GHz
4817

Benchmarks


Description of the processor

The Intel Core i5-12600 was released in the first quarter of 2022 and is designed for the desktop PC segment. A mainboard with the LGA 1700 socket is required to install the Intel Core i5-12600. The processor is manufactured with a structure width of 10 nanometers and is based on the Alder Lake S architecture.

The Intel Core i5-12600 has a level 2 cache of 7.50 megabytes and a level 3 cache of 18.00 megabytes. It has 6 physical cores and supports Intels Hyperthreading technology, which means that up to 16 threads are available if required and depending on the application. The 6 cores, codenamed Golden Cove, have a base clock frequency of 3.30 gigahertz and the maximum turbo clock of the cores is 4.80 gigahertz. The CPU cannot be overclocked, so a model with a K in the model name is required.

The single-core performance of the Intel Core i5-12600 is on par with the i7 and i9 models of the same generation. The difference is then evident in the multi-core performance, here the i5 processor is significantly behind the larger models of the 12th generation due to the lower number of cores.

The Intel Core i5-12600 has an internal graphics unit, the Intel UHD Graphics 770 is used here. This iGPU was launched in the first quarter of 2022 and, like the processor, is also manufactured using the 10-nanometer process. It clocks at 0.30 gigahertz and can increase this clock rate to up to 1.45 gigahertz in turbo mode. It has 32 execution units with 256 shader units and thus achieves an FP32 computing power (single precision) of 742 gigaflops.

When it comes to RAM, the Intel Core i5-12600 supports DDR4-3200 modules or the newer DDR5-4800 generation. Up to 128 gigabytes of RAM can be controlled via the 2 available memory channels.



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