It’s not just the most enthusiastic waiting for the new generation of Intel processors, there are users who are waiting to know how the more modest processors in the line perform. That’s why we’re bringing you the results of the i5-12600K under CPU-Z so that you also know how it stacks up against its rival, the 5600X. Who is the faster of the two?
Although it seems like a simple generational leap, the Alder Lake-S architecture of Intel’s upcoming desktop and laptop processors is the biggest leap for them since Core 2 and we dare say that at what level was the Pentium Pro, although the changes are not complete and improvements will be implemented over successive generations.
One of the most important changes is the creation of a new control unit, which not only applies technologies such as Thread Director for more efficient use of the heterogeneous configuration of its cores, but also the fact of using the largest decoder in a CPU with ISA x86 to date, which allows it to have significant improvements in IPC.
Obviously all of these changes are just words on paper if they don’t translate into performance and that is why they have been tested through benchmarks such as CPU-Z to the i5-12600K and it has been compared to the AMD 5600X, its price rival.
This is the Intel Core i5-12600K
Now that the final versions of the 12th generation processors of the blue brand of PC processors are already in the hands of early adopters, it didn’t take long to measure the power of their new processors to see if what was promised by Intel. That’s right, but first let’s go over the specs of the i5-12600K
- CPU 10 heterogeneous cores, including 6 high performance, P-Cores, and with HyperThreading support and therefore capable of executing 12 threads. The others are very energy efficient, E-Cores, and do not support multithreading.
- The base clock speed of the P-Cores is 3.7 GHz, that of the E-Cores of 2.8 GHz.
- Regarding the amount of GHz they can reach using Turbo Boost Max 3.0, they are 4.9 GHz for high performance cores and 3.6 GHz for the most efficient.
For the moment we do not know at what price this processor will be launched, but if the latest information confirms the trend we should see it at a cost to the public very close to that of its predecessor, the i5-11600K. In any case, with Intel’s presentation for the 27th of this month and with only two days left, there isn’t much left for us to do.
This is how the i5-12600K works under CPU-Z
And what results have you obtained in CPU-Z? Well you can see it in the image above these lines and as you can see in the test which uses a single kernel said benchmark places it 19.5% above AMD Ryzen 5 5600X when obtaining 746.2 points, while in the multicore test it obtains a score of 7058.1 what makes the result 46.7% higher than AMD’s counterpart
Note that the AMD 5600X does not use efficient cores, but the single-core test runs under a single P-Cores core to perform the performance test. So the preliminary conclusion is that each of the P cores, formerly called Golden Cove, is a bit better than the Zen 3 cores. Either way, it’s too early for a definitive conclusion.
Rather, the multicore test uses all cores and adds their total power, hence the delta with the AMD processor goes from around 20% to almost 50% (16 threads versus 12). In any case, the efficiency of heterogeneous architectures relies on an intelligent division of labor, not on using all the power combined into one.
