The Intel Core i7-12700K and Core i5-12600K Review: High Performance For the Mid-Range
by Gavin Bonshor on March 29, 2022 8:00 AM ESTCPU Benchmark Performance: Power, Office, and Science
Our previous set of ‘office’ benchmarks have often been a mix of science and synthetics, so this time we wanted to keep our office section purely on real-world performance.
For the remainder of the testing in this review of the Core i7-12700K and i5-12600K, we are using DDR5 memory at the following settings:
- DDR5-4800(B) CL40
Power
Comparing power draw to other competing CPUs, both the Core i7-12700K and Core i5-12600K are noticeably more power-efficient than previous generations including both Intel's 11th Gen and 10th Gen Core. Though at full-load with no overclocking, AMD's Ryzen 5000 and 3000 series processors remain much more power-efficient.
Office
In our office benchmarks, Intel's 12th Gen Core reigns supreme in Agisoft Photoscan due to its higher core frequency and IPC performance.
Science
In the majority of our science-based benchmarks, both the Core i7 and Core i5 did well. The only benchmarks that didn't favor the 12th Gen Core series processors were in 3DPM 2.1, but more specifically in the AVX test.
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larry9 - Tuesday, March 29, 2022 - link
Note the difference : a closed platform design, an open cpu silicon design.You want to build a PC, you can't use an Apple chip. You want to run windows, you can't use an Apple chip. You want to add memory, a second drive, an input card?
You are catching on.
Blastdoor - Tuesday, March 29, 2022 - link
Let me guess, due to the unfreezing process, you have no internal monologue?Anandtech has done some of the best reviews of Apple Silicon on the Internet, your internal monologue notwithstanding. I'm hoping to see a new one of the Mac Studio with its M1 Ultra. If there isn't going to be one, I'd just like to know so I can stop checking every day.
lmcd - Tuesday, March 29, 2022 - link
Andrei is gone, don't hold your breath. It's a skeleton crew at Anandtech now that leadership at Future has basically left the site to die.Hifihedgehog - Tuesday, March 29, 2022 - link
Future is speedily becoming another TechTarget, acquiring and discarding sites after they serve their revenue-devouring purposes. I wager AnandTech forums will be closed down much like all the TechTarget forums (BrightHand, NotebookReview, TabletPCReview, etc.) now are.Hifihedgehog - Tuesday, March 29, 2022 - link
Give it 5-7 years but the forums here will be closed as well. With Ian and Andrei gone, this site now has an expiration date.Blastdoor - Tuesday, March 29, 2022 - link
shoot -- I hadn't realized. What a shame :-(Calin - Wednesday, March 30, 2022 - link
There are applications that run on both platforms - some of them (like Cinebench) are even in this review.Also, there was a rough comparison between the Apple mobile phone core performance versus Intel server CPU core performance a couple of years ago.
So, plenty of prior examples for an Apple vs Intel article, even if it's M1 versus Zen3 or whatever else.
Khanan - Tuesday, March 29, 2022 - link
Do you really need an review for that? If you want Apple you buy it, it’s good. If you don’t want Apple you won’t buy it anyway.mode_13h - Wednesday, March 30, 2022 - link
We want detailed benchmarks. We want to know how good the Ultra really is, particularly how well CPU and GPU performance scale up to dual-die. We want to see Apple's claims on performance and efficiency tested. I'm never going to buy a Mac, but I still want to know if their architecture lives up to their claims.Since Apple is leading on the innovation front, this could be taken as a harbinger of what's to come for other CPUs and GPUs.
Detailed analysis of leading-edge tech is/was what this site is/was all about.
Khanan - Sunday, April 3, 2022 - link
Did I talk to you? No. I realize you’re a huge nerd that has to comment on everything here. You don’t own this website and you should get a therapist for that, it’s a bit alarming what you do and not a good showing for this site.That said, I’m not gonna waste my time with you again. You should know why. Didn’t read your comment either.