The initial delivery of the Intel Core 12 consisted of only three different models: i5-12600K, i7-12700K and i9-12900K. As well as its KF variants which have the integrated GPU disabled. This is not normal for the company founded by Gordon Moore, however, the whole range as well as the prices of the Intel Core 12s are starting to leak.
It’s no secret that the rest of the Intel Core 12 line with Alder Lake-S architecture will make its debut soon after the first models launch. What we weren’t expecting was to have both full specs for the entire lineup, as well as starting prices in the same month of launch.
This is the full range of Intel Core 12
The first source is from the Dell Alienware Aurora R13 manual, the second is from an online store in Holland which has published prices for the entire line of processors with additional information about them. As you might have observed in the image above, these are the lower end models that will go on sale shortly, starting with the i3-12100F through to the i5-12600.
On the i3 we don’t know any information at this time regarding the number of cores, but on the i5-12400 and i5-12400F we have some news. Both processors have a consumption of 65W and a total of 6 P-Core cores, but they lack E-Cores and that’s something important.
The difference between the two models (i5-12400 vs i5-12400F = is that the F version supports Hyper-Threading (it does not have an iGPU by the way) and the one that does not have the letter This reminds us of the fact that Intel has two different designs of its Intel Core 12s, one with an 8 + 8 core configuration and the other with a 6 + 0 core configuration.
Well, the second model would belong to the Intel Core 12 processors which are below the i5-12600 and therefore from the i3-12100F up to the i5-12500. These would not have the E-Cores and no longer have a heterogeneous core configuration like their older brothers. Pat Gelsinger’s didn’t just turn off the E-Cores, but remade the chip without them and reused the space.
The change also means the low-end Intel Core 12’s thermal specs generate more heat per zone. In any case, PL2 mode is generally not active in this class of processors.
Models without letters also get closer
One of the biggest complaints from potential users is that at present none of the current Intel Core 12 line processors consume less than 125 W. Well, Intel is going to add the letterless versions of the current models, so the i5-12600, i7-12700 and i9-12900 will appear soon. These have the same basic configuration as the Letter models, but run at a lower clock speed, so they are a bit slower, but also consume less, 65W and are locked in PL2 and overclocked.
Although of all, the one that surprises the most is the i9-12900F, which makes us think that the F models could reach the whole range and that it would not be completely complete:
- i9-12900T 16 (8 + 8) 24T 30 MB L3 hasta 4.9 GHz and UHD Graphics 770
- i7-12700T 12 (8 + 4) 20T 25 MB L3 hasta 4.7 GHz and UHD Graphics 770
- i5-12600T 6 (6 + 0) 12T 18 MB L3 hasta 4.6 GHz and UHD Graphics 770
- i5-12500T 6 (6 + 0) 12T 18 MB L3 hasta 4.4 GHz and UHD Graphics 770
- i5-12400T 6 (6 + 0) 12T 18 MB L3 hasta 4.2 GHz and UHD Graphics 730
- i3-12300T 4 (4 + 0) 8T 12 Mo L3 hasta 4.2 GHz and UHD Graphics 730
- i3-12100T 4 (4 + 0) 8T 12 Mo L3 hasta 4.1 GHz and UHD 730
The difference with the i9-12900? Well, the fact that it can achieve 0.1GHz higher Boost speed apart from the ones mentioned earlier.
