Alder Lake / Golden Cove

Flagship example: Core i9-12900K · Intel · introduced 2021

Results2FlagshipIntel(R) Core(TM) i9-12900KST score / GHz (family avg)1,282MT score / Watt (family avg)325MT scaling efficiency51%

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Alder Lake / Golden Cove

Benchmark results in this family

Highlighted rows (★) are the most important CPUs of the family (Important - 1 in the result files). ST/GHz = single-core optimized score per 1 GHz; MT/W = multi-core optimized score per Watt of TDP. Click headers to sort.

CPU Name Cores Clock MHz TDP W Score ST Score MT ST/GHz MT/W Text Html
Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-12900K 24 5,200 241 6,638 80,137 1,277 333 Text Html
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12500 12 4,600 117 5,922 37,188 1,287 318 Text Html

Architecture signature (flagship, single-core optimized, per GHz)

Each cell is the flagship’s score/GHz on one Livermore kernel, colored by where it sits among every CPU ever measured (red = bottom, green = top, log scale). Hover a column header for the kernel name.

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Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-12900K
score/GHz, percentile-colored vs all CPUs
4,7821,4961,5691,4995687935,7222,8682,9201,3087691,7764747951,6259861,0313,8423323603,9141,056938487