Intel Core i9-12900T Benchmark, Test and specs
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The Intel Core i9-12900T has 16 cores with 24 threads and is based on the 12. gen of the Intel Core i9 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the LGA 1700 socket and was released in Q1/2022. The Intel Core i9-12900T scores 1,878 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 15,450 points.
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| Name: | Intel Core i9-12900T |
| Family: | Intel Core i9 |
| CPU group: | Intel Core i 12000 |
| Segment: | Desktop / Server |
| Generation: | 12 |
| Predecessor: | Intel Core i9-11900T |
| Successor: | Intel Core i9-13900T |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
The Intel Core i9-12900T has 16 CPU cores and can calculate 24 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i9-12900T is 1.40 GHz (4.90 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.
| CPU Cores / Threads: | 16 / 24 |
| Core architecture: | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| A-Core: | 8x Golden Cove |
| B-Core: | 8x Gracemont |
| Hyperthreading / SMT: | Yes |
| Overclocking: | No |
| A-Core Frequency: | 1.40 GHz (4.90 GHz) |
| B-Core Frequency: | 1.00 GHz (3.60 GHz) |
Internal Graphics
The Intel Core i9-12900T has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i9-12900T 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): | 1.55 GHz |
| Execution units: | 32 |
| Shader: | 256 |
| Max. GPU Memory: | 64 GB |
| Max. displays: | 3 |
| Generation: | 11 |
| Direct X: | 12 |
| Technology: | 10 nm |
| Release date: | Q4/2021 |
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 & PCIeThe 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. |
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| Memory type: | DDR4-3200 DDR5-4800 |
| Max. Memory: | 128 GB |
| Memory channels: | 2 (Dual Channel) |
| Bandwidth: | 76.8 GB/s |
| ECC: | Yes |
| PCIe: | 5.0 x 20 |
| AES-NI: | Yes |
Thermal ManagementThe thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 35 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. |
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| TDP (PL1 / PBP): | 35 W |
| TDP (PL2): | 106 W |
| TDP up: | -- |
| TDP down: | -- |
| Tjunction max.: | 100 °C |
Technical details
The Intel Core i9-12900T 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 44.00 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: | 14.00 MB |
| L3-Cache: | 30.00 MB |
| Architecture: | Alder Lake S |
| 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: | 489 $ |
| Part Number: | -- |
| Documents: | Technical data sheet |
16C 24T @ 1.40 GHz (4.90 GHz)
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Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Core i9-12900T 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.
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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.
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14C 20T @ 4.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-13490F
10C 16T @ 4.80 GHzNot verified |
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AMD Ryzen 5 7600
6C 12T @ 5.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-12900T
16C 24T @ 4.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-12700F
12C 20T @ 4.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-12700
12C 20T @ 4.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-1280P
14C 20T @ 4.80 GHz |
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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.
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AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
16C 32T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-12700K
12C 20T @ 4.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-12700KF
12C 20T @ 4.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-12900T
16C 24T @ 3.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-7960X
16C 32T @ 3.60 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
12C 24T @ 4.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-12700F
12C 20T @ 4.00 GHz |
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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.|
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Intel Core i7-12700K
12C 20T @ 5.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-13620H
10C 16T @ 4.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-13650HX
14C 20T @ 4.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-12900T
16C 24T @ 4.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-13800H
14C 20T @ 5.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-12700F
12C 20T @ 4.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-12700
12C 20T @ 4.90 GHz |
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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.|
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Intel Core i9-13900HK
14C 20T @ 5.00 GHz |
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AMD EPYC 7402P
24C 48T @ 3.20 GHz |
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AMD EPYC 7502P
32C 64T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-12900T
16C 24T @ 3.40 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
16C 32T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-13500T
14C 20T @ 3.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-12900E
16C 24T @ 4.00 GHz |
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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.|
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Intel Core i7-13705H
14C 20T @ 5.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-13800HE
14C 20T @ 5.00 GHz |
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Apple A16 Bionic
6C 6T @ 3.46 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-12900T
16C 24T @ 4.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-11700B
8C 16T @ 5.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-11900KB
8C 16T @ 5.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-11900KF
8C 16T @ 5.30 GHz |
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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.
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12C 12T @ 3.50 GHz |
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Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)
12C 12T @ 3.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-12900HX
16C 24T @ 2.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-12900T
16C 24T @ 3.40 GHz |
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Intel Xeon Gold 6138
20C 40T @ 2.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-13700HX
16C 24T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Intel Xeon Gold 6150
18C 36T @ 3.20 GHz |
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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.|
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Intel Core i5-5257U
Intel Iris Graphics 6100 @ 1.05 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-4570R
Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 @ 1.25 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-12900T
Intel UHD Graphics 770 @ 1.55 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-13500E
Intel UHD Graphics 770 @ 1.55 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-13500TE
Intel UHD Graphics 770 @ 1.55 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-13500T
Intel UHD Graphics 770 @ 1.55 GHz |
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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.|
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Intel Core i7-13800H
14C 20T @ 4.50 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 3900
12C 24T @ 3.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-13800HE
14C 20T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-12900T
16C 24T @ 3.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-13700H
14C 20T @ 4.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-12700F
12C 20T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-12700
12C 20T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Benchmarks
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Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,357 entries
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Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,330 entries
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FP32 SP iGPU
1,871 entries
1,871 entries
PassMark CPU-Mark
2,290 entries
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