Intel Core i7-1250U Benchmark, Test and specs

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The Intel Core i7-1250U has 10 cores with 12 threads and is based on the 12. gen of the Intel Core i7 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the BGA 1744 socket and was released in Q1/2022. The Intel Core i7-1250U scores 1,596 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 6,874 points.
Intel Core i7-1250U

CPU lineage

The segment in which we have classified the Intel Core i7-1250U. 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 i7-1250U.

Name: Intel Core i7-1250U
Family: Intel Core i7 (293)
CPU group: Intel Core i 1200P/1200U (21)
Architecture: Alder Lake U
Segment: Mobile
Generation: 12
Predecessor: --
Successor: --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i7-1250U has 10 CPU cores and can calculate 12 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i7-1250U is 1.10 GHz (4.70 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads: 10 / 12
Core architecture: hybrid (big.LITTLE)
A-Core: 2x Golden Cove
B-Core: 8x Gracemont
Hyperthreading / SMT: Yes
Overclocking: No
A-Core Frequency: 1.10 GHz (4.70 GHz)
B-Core Frequency: 0.80 GHz (3.50 GHz)

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i7-1250U has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i7-1250U uses the Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96 (Alder Lake), which has 768 texture shaders and 96 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name: Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96 (Alder Lake)
GPU frequency: 0.25 GHz
GPU (Turbo): 0.90 GHz
Compute units: 96
Shader: 768
Hardware Raytracing: No
Release date: Q1/2022
Max. displays: 4
Generation: 13
Direct X: 12.1
Technology: 10 nm
Max. GPU Memory: 32 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
VP9: Decode / Encode
AV1: Decode
AVC: Decode / Encode
VC-1: Decode
JPEG: Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The processor can use up to 64 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 83.2 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:
LPDDR5-5200
LPDDR4X-4266
DDR5-4800
DDR4-3200
83.2 GB/s
68.2 GB/s
76.8 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Max. Memory: 64 GB
Memory channels: 2 (Dual Channel)
ECC: No
PCIe: 4.0 x 28
PCIe Bandwidth: 55.1 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 9 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): 9 W
TDP (PL2): 29 W
TDP up: --
TDP down: --
Tjunction max.: 100 °C

Technical details

The Intel Core i7-1250U 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 18.50 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: BGA 1744
L2-Cache: 6.50 MB
L3-Cache: 12.00 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
Release date: Q1/2022
Release price: --
Part Number: --
Documents: Technical data sheet

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Benchmark results

Verified Benchmark results
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Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD Ryzen 7 7840U AMD Ryzen 7 7840U
8C 16T @ 5.10 GHz
1755
Intel Core i3-13100 Intel Core i3-13100
4C 8T @ 4.50 GHz
1751
Intel Core i3-13100F Intel Core i3-13100F
4C 8T @ 4.50 GHz
1751
Intel Core i7-1250U Intel Core i7-1250U
10C 12T @ 4.70 GHz
1745
Intel Core i7-1260U Intel Core i7-1260U
10C 12T @ 4.70 GHz
1745
Intel Core i3-14100F Intel Core i3-14100F
4C 8T @ 4.70 GHz
1742
Intel Core i3-14100 Intel Core i3-14100
4C 8T @ 4.70 GHz
1742

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i5-8600K Intel Core i5-8600K
6C 6T @ 4.10 GHz
6832
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF
6C 12T @ 3.40 GHz
6822
Intel Core i5-10500H Intel Core i5-10500H
6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz
6813
Intel Core i7-1250U Intel Core i7-1250U
10C 12T @ 2.50 GHz
6788
Intel Core i7-1260U Intel Core i7-1260U
10C 12T @ 2.10 GHz
6788
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
6C 12T @ 3.40 GHz
6784
AMD Ryzen 3 3300X AMD Ryzen 3 3300X
4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz
6754

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 Xeon E-2314 Intel Xeon E-2314
4C 4T @ 4.50 GHz
1604
Intel Core i7-1255U Intel Core i7-1255U
10C 12T @ 4.70 GHz
1603
Intel Core i9-11900H Intel Core i9-11900H
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz
1599
Intel Core i7-1250U Intel Core i7-1250U
10C 12T @ 4.70 GHz
1596
Intel Core i7-1260U Intel Core i7-1260U
10C 12T @ 4.70 GHz
1596
Intel Core i3-1215U Intel Core i3-1215U
6C 8T @ 4.40 GHz
1596
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz
1595

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.
AMD Ryzen 7 5800U AMD Ryzen 7 5800U
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz
6880
Intel Core i5-10600K Intel Core i5-10600K
6C 12T @ 4.50 GHz
6877
Intel Core i5-10600KF Intel Core i5-10600KF
6C 12T @ 4.50 GHz
6877
Intel Core i7-1250U Intel Core i7-1250U
10C 12T @ 2.50 GHz
6874
Intel Core i7-1260U Intel Core i7-1260U
10C 12T @ 2.10 GHz
6874
Intel Core i3-13100F Intel Core i3-13100F
4C 8T @ 4.10 GHz
6835
Intel Core i3-13100 Intel Core i3-13100
4C 8T @ 4.10 GHz
6835

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.
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 5945 AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 5945
12C 24T @ 4.70 GHz
2119
Intel Core i3-12100E Intel Core i3-12100E
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz
2119
Intel Core i3-12300T Intel Core i3-12300T
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz
2119
Intel Core i7-1250U Intel Core i7-1250U
10C 12T @ 4.70 GHz
2115
Intel Core i7-1260U Intel Core i7-1260U
10C 12T @ 4.70 GHz
2115
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz
2114
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
6C 12T @ 4.60 GHz
2113

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 i9-9900T Intel Core i9-9900T
8C 16T @ 3.60 GHz
6315
Intel Core i5-11500T Intel Core i5-11500T
6C 12T @ 3.30 GHz
6306
Apple A16 Bionic Apple A16 Bionic
6C 6T @ 3.46 GHz
6299
Intel Core i7-1250U Intel Core i7-1250U
10C 12T @ 2.50 GHz
6296
Intel Core i7-1260U Intel Core i7-1260U
10C 12T @ 2.10 GHz
6296
Intel Xeon E-2276M Intel Xeon E-2276M
6C 12T @ 2.80 GHz
6288
Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3
10C 20T @ 3.00 GHz
6285

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 i5-1130G7 Intel Core i5-1130G7
Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80 (Tiger Lake) @ 1.10 GHz
1406
AMD Ryzen 3 7330U AMD Ryzen 3 7330U
AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Renoir) @ 1.80 GHz
1383
AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 7330U AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 7330U
AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Renoir) @ 1.80 GHz
1383
Intel Core i7-1250U Intel Core i7-1250U
Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96 (Alder Lake) @ 0.90 GHz
1379
Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
Apple A15 (4 GPU Cores) @ 1.34 GHz
1370
Samsung Exynos 2100 Samsung Exynos 2100
ARM Mali-G78 MP14 @ 0.76 GHz
1360
AMD Ryzen 5 4680U AMD Ryzen 5 4680U
AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (Renoir) @ 1.50 GHz
1343

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.
Intel Core i7-9700 Intel Core i7-9700
8C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
13350
Intel Core i7-9700F Intel Core i7-9700F
8C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
13350
Intel Core i7-1260U Intel Core i7-1260U
10C 12T @ 2.10 GHz
13307
Intel Core i7-1250U Intel Core i7-1250U
10C 12T @ 2.50 GHz
13302
AMD Ryzen 5 3500X AMD Ryzen 5 3500X
6C 6T @ 4.00 GHz
13245
Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2 Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2
8C 16T @ 3.00 GHz
13236
AMD Ryzen 5 2600 AMD Ryzen 5 2600
6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz
13230

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