The Intel Core i5-12600K “Alder Lake” surprises in the latest performance results compared to the current i5-11600K “Rocket Lake”.
Core i5-12600K, multithreading performance 50% better than 11600K
The upcoming 12th generation Core series mid-range processor seems to perform very well in multithreaded tasks. This is shown by CPU-Z’s leaked performance results when compared to the current i5-12600K.
The Core i5-12600K is a hybrid CPU based on Intel Process Node 7 (formerly called 10nm Enhanced SuperFin), which has 6 P-core performance cores and 4 E-core efficiency cores. In this configuration, only the P-core cores have HyperThreading. Therefore, the number of threads is 16.
The clock rates of the Core i5-12600K are 2.8 GHz/3.7 GHz as base clock and between 3.6/4.9 GHz as boost clock with up to 1-2 cores for efficiency or performance. The clock rate displayed by CPU-Z is 4.5/4.7 GHz.
The results of the i5-12600K range between 760 and 773 points in the single-thread test and between 7156 and 7220 points in the multi-thread load. This is about 50% faster than the i5-11600K and faster than the Core i9-11900K or Ryzen 7 5800X in multithreaded.
If the price holds, this could lead to a big generational leap in performance from one mid-range device to the next.
Intel will unveil its 12th generation Core series in early November. Then we’ll see if these performance results hold true. If the performance is confirmed, AMD will have to respond with a price reduction for the Ryzen 5000.