Core i7-12700F: specs and benchmarks

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Core i7-12700F
2022
12 cores / 20 threads, 65 Watt
19.32

Core i7-12700F provides good benchmark performance at 19.32% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

Intel started Core i7-12700F sales 4 January 2022 at a recommended price of $386. This is an Alder Lake-S architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 12 cores and 20 threads, and is based on Intel 7 manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 4900 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA1700 processor with a TDP of 65 Watt. It supports DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200 memory.

Primary details

Core i7-12700F processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking303
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation38.45
Market segmentDesktop processor
Power efficiency28.13of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameAlder Lake-S (2022)
Release date4 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$386of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores12 (Dodeca-Core)
Threads20
Base clock speed2.1 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed4.9 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache80K (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache1.25 MB (per core)of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache25 MB (shared)of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithographyIntel 7 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size215 mm2
Maximum core temperature100 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+

Compatibility

Information on Core i7-12700F compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketFCLGA1700
Power consumption (TDP)65 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Core i7-12700F. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2
AES-NI+
AVX+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Speed Shift+
Turbo Boost Technology2.0
Hyper-Threading Technology+
TSX+
Idle States+
Thermal Monitoring+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0+
Deep Learning Boost+

Security technologies

Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+
EDB+
Secure Key+
OS Guard+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

VT-d+
VT-x+
EPT+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Core i7-12700F's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR5-4800, DDR4-3200
Maximum memory size128 GBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9124)
Max memory channels2of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth76.8 GB/sof 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9124)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version5.0 and 4.0
PCI Express lanes20of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Core i7-12700F. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

i7-12700F 19.32

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

i7-12700F 30687

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

i7-12700F 2399

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

i7-12700F 11805

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

i7-12700F 9146

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

i7-12700F 56067

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

i7-12700F 15823

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

i7-12700F 34

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

i7-12700F 2610

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

i7-12700F 271

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

i7-12700F 3.28

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

i7-12700F 3.3

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

i7-12700F 8695

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

i7-12700F 119

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

i7-12700F 297

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

i7-12700F 10126

Blender(-)

i7-12700F 212

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

i7-12700F 1590

7-Zip Single

i7-12700F 6145

7-Zip

i7-12700F 61218

WebXPRT 3

i7-12700F 281

CrossMark Overall

i7-12700F 1841

WebXPRT 4 Overall

i7-12700F 271

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Core i7-12700F's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop CPUs.


Ryzen 9 3900 100.1
Core i7-12700F 100

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Core i7-12700F is Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.

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Similar processors

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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Core i7-12700F, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Core i7-12700F in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 9404 configurations using Core i7-12700F in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
1.9% (175/9404)
RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 4080
0.7% (64/9404)
RTX 4070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
3.9% (364/9404)
RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 7900 XTX
0.1% (12/9404)
RTX 4070 SUPER GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
1.7% (158/9404)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.8% (73/9404)
RX 7900 XT Radeon RX 7900 XT
0.07% (7/9404)
RX 6950 XT Radeon RX 6950 XT
0.1% (12/9404)

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