Intel Core i9-12950HX Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2023-03-05

The Intel Core i9-12950HX 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 BGA 1744 socket and was released in Q2/2022. The Intel Core i9-12950HX scores 1,861 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 15,711 points.

CPU lineage
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Name:	Intel Core i9-12950HX
Family:	Intel Core i9 (78)
CPU group:	Intel Core i 12000H (23)
Architecture:	Alder Lake H
Segment:	Mobile
Generation:	12
Predecessor:	--
Successor:	Intel Core i9-13950HX

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i9-12950HX has 16 CPU cores and can calculate 24 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i9-12950HX is 2.30 GHz (5.00 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:	Yes
A-Core Frequency:	2.30 GHz (5.00 GHz)
B-Core Frequency:	1.70 GHz (3.60 GHz)

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

AI hardware:	--
AI specifications:	--

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i9-12950HX has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i9-12950HX 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
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 type:	Memory bandwidth:
Memory & PCIe The processor can use up to 128 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.

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:	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 55 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):	55 W
TDP (PL2):	157 W
TDP up:	--
TDP down:	45 W
Tjunction max.:	100 °C

Technical details

The Intel Core i9-12950HX 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:	BGA 1744
L2-Cache:	14.00 MB
L3-Cache:	30.00 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:	Q2/2022
Release price:	590 $
Part Number:	--
Documents:	Technical data sheet

Intel Core i9-12950HX
16C 24T @ 2.30 GHz (5.00 GHz)

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the Intel Core i9-12950HX 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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Geekbench 5.4.4 (128 GB Ram), Windows 11 Pro

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 7700 8C 16T @ 5.30 GHz	1932
	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D 16C 32T @ 5.40 GHz	1931
	Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU) 12C 12T @ 4.06 GHz	1928
	Intel Core i9-12950HX 16C 24T @ 5.00 GHz	1927
	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX 96C 192T @ 5.10 GHz	1927
	Intel Core i5-12600KF 10C 16T @ 4.90 GHz	1918
	Intel Core i5-12600K 10C 16T @ 4.90 GHz	1918

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.


	Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) 14C 14T @ 3.60 GHz	20983
	AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12C 24T @ 4.10 GHz	20955
	AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8C 16T @ 5.20 GHz	20399
	Intel Core i9-12950HX 16C 24T @ 2.30 GHz	19655
	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7745 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	19540
	AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	19540
	Intel Core i9-12900HX 16C 24T @ 2.30 GHz	18845

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.


	AMD Ryzen 5 7640U 6C 12T @ 4.90 GHz	1869
	Intel Core Ultra 7 165H 16C 22T @ 5.00 GHz	1866
	Intel Core i7-13650HX 14C 20T @ 4.90 GHz	1862
	Intel Core i9-12950HX 16C 24T @ 5.00 GHz	1861
	Intel Core i9-12900HX 16C 24T @ 5.00 GHz	1861
	Intel Core i9-12900TE 16C 24T @ 4.80 GHz	1861
	Intel Core i7-13620H 10C 16T @ 4.90 GHz	1859

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 i9-9980XE 18C 36T @ 4.00 GHz	15725
	Intel Core i9-12900 16C 24T @ 4.20 GHz	15712
	Intel Core i9-12900F 16C 24T @ 4.20 GHz	15712
	Intel Core i9-12950HX 16C 24T @ 2.30 GHz	15711
	Intel Xeon Gold 5220R 24C 48T @ 2.40 GHz	15684
	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3955WX 16C 32T @ 4.00 GHz	15679
	Intel Xeon Gold 6238 22C 44T @ 2.60 GHz	15622

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.


	Intel Core i7-12700TE 12C 20T @ 4.60 GHz	2354
	Intel Core i5-13500H 12C 16T @ 4.70 GHz	2351
	Intel Core i5-13505H 12C 16T @ 4.70 GHz	2351
	Intel Core i9-12950HX 16C 24T @ 5.00 GHz	2349
	Intel Core i9-11900KF 8C 16T @ 5.30 GHz	2349
	Intel Xeon E-2378G 8C 16T @ 5.10 GHz	2348
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8640U 6C 12T @ 4.90 GHz	2340

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 i5-14400 10C 16T @ 2.50 GHz	13682
	AMD EPYC 7F72 24C 48T @ 3.50 GHz	13674
	AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX 12C 24T @ 3.00 GHz	13667
	Intel Core i9-12950HX 16C 24T @ 2.30 GHz	13649
	AMD EPYC 7742 64C 128T @ 2.80 GHz	13647
	Intel Core i9-13905H 14C 20T @ 5.00 GHz	13634
	Intel Core i9-13900H 14C 20T @ 5.00 GHz	13629

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 i5-5575R Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200 @ 1.05 GHz	806
	Intel Core i5-5257U Intel Iris Graphics 6100 @ 1.05 GHz	806
	Intel Core i5-4570R Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 @ 1.25 GHz	800
	Intel Core i9-12950HX Intel UHD Graphics 770 @ 1.55 GHz	794
	Intel Core i5-14500HX Intel UHD Graphics 13th Gen (32 EU) @ 1.55 GHz	794
	Intel Core i5-14600T Intel UHD Graphics 770 @ 1.55 GHz	794
	Intel Core i5-14500T Intel UHD Graphics 770 @ 1.55 GHz	794

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 i9-12900 16C 24T @ 4.20 GHz	36739
	AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8C 16T @ 5.20 GHz	36536
	Intel Core i9-13900E 24C 32T @ 4.20 GHz	36455
	Intel Core i9-12950HX 16C 24T @ 2.30 GHz	36411
	Intel Core i9-12900HX 16C 24T @ 2.30 GHz	35642
	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7745 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	35640
	AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	35640

Benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
586 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
565 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,488 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,461 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,755 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,703 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,042 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
516 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,392 entries

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