Intel Core i7-12700 non-K with 8 cores and 16 threads?
A new Alder Lake-S processor had just made its first appearance on the Geekbench website.
A non-K series CPU called i7-12700 has just been tested in the Geekbench CPU test. The software had trouble reading out the information on the motherboard, but the CPUID string (Family 6 Model 151) appears to match Alder Lake CPU, which was correctly recognized by the software.
According to the leak, Intel Core i7-12700 non-K would offer 8 cores and 16 threads, a different configuration than the rumored i7-12700K CPU with 8 P-Cores, 4 E-Cores, and a total of 20 threads. This means that either the software is reading wrong values or Intel is now differentiating its K-series CPUs with higher specs.
The processor was reportedly running at 4789 MHz with a base clock at 2.1 GHz. An 8-core and 16-thread configuration suggests that Efficient Cores in this SKU are not enabled, so both clock speeds would be showing Performance Core frequencies.
The CPU scored 1595 points in the single-core benchmark and 10170 points in the multi-core, which puts it at the very end of the single-core benchmark list compared to the latest Intel 11th Gen Core series (Rocket Lake) and AMD Ryzen 5000 Series (Zen3).
Despite offering a lower single-core result than its predecessor, the Core i7-11700 non-K, the multicore performance has increased by 15%. In comparison to Ryzen 7 5800X, the CPU is 5% slower in single-core benchmark and just 2% slower in multi-core.
| Geekbench V5 Benchmark Scores | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| VideoCardz.com | Single-Core | Multi-Core | |
| Intel Core i9-11900K | 3.5 GHz (8 cores) | 1856 | 10995 |
| Intel Core i9-11900KF | 3.5 GHz (8 cores) | 1759 | 10128 |
| Intel Core i9-11900F | 2.5 GHz (8 cores) | 1726 | 9432 |
| Intel Core i7-11700KF | 3.6 GHz (8 cores) | 1707 | 9882 |
| Intel Core i7-11700K | 3.6 GHz (8 cores) | 1707 | 9830 |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5950X | 3.4 GHz (16 cores) | 1691 | 16724 |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800X | 3.8 GHz (8 cores) | 1672 | 10376 |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 3.7 GHz (12 cores) | 1671 | 14142 |
| Intel Core i7-11700 | 2.5 GHz (8 cores) | 1633 | 8822 |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 3.7 GHz (6 cores) | 1619 | 8175 |
| Intel Core i9-11900 | 2.5 GHz (8 cores) | 1600 | 9011 |
| Intel Core i7-12700 | 2.1 GHz (8 cores) | 1595 | 10170 |
The Core i7-12700 non-K would offer more Performance Cores than i5-12600K, but it would lack the benefits of Efficient Cores power savings, should the leak be proven true.
| Intel 12th Gen Core Series (Alder Lake-S) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VideoCardz | Cores / Threads | Core Type | 1-2 Core Boost | All-Core Boost | TDP |
| i9-12900K | 8C+8c/24T | P-Core (Big) | 5.3 GHz | 5.0 GHz | 125W |
| E-Core (Small) | 3.9 GHz | 3.7 GHz | |||
| i7-12700K | 8C+4c/20T | P-Core (Big) | 5.0 GHz | 4.7 GHz | 125W |
| E-Core (Small) | 3.8 GHz | 3.6 GHz | |||
| i7-12700 | 8C+0c/16T | P-Core (Big) | 2.1 GHz | 4.2 GHz | 65W |
| E-Core (Small) | – | – | |||
| i5-12600K | 6C+4c/16T | P-Core (Big) | 4.9 GHz | 4.5 GHz | 125W |
| E-Core (Small) | 3.6 GHz | 3.4 GHz |
Source: Geekbench via BenchLeaks