Testseek.com have collected 134 expert reviews of the Intel Core i5 12600K 3.7GHz Socket 1700 and the average rating is 90%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel Core i5 12600K 3.7GHz Socket 1700.
November 2021
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The editors liked
Intel's 12thgen is superfast
Both in singleand multithread scenarios
We saw great performance from both tested chips in encoding and rendering tests
The Core i912900K beat out AMD's Ryzen 9 5950X more often than not in our tests
Intel's genovergen imp
Excellent Single Threaded Performance
Strong MultiThreaded Performance
CuttingEdge Platform
16 PCIe Gen 5 Lanes Of The CPU
Competitive CPU Pricing
Increased Core Counts Up And Down The Stack
Impressive price/performance
Large performance increase over 11600K
Almost as fast as 5800X
Beats Ryzen 5 5600X conclusively
Huge gains in low-threaded applications
Good energy efficiency
Integrated graphics
Multiplier unlocked
Support for DDR5 an
CPU performance punches above its station in bench testing
Reasonable price-per-core
High overclock ceiling
The best CPU for gaming in 2021
Faster than the Core i9 11900K
A more efficient Alder Lake chip
The editors didn't like
Power consumption at load is a lot higher than the respective AMD competition
The higherend 12thgen SKUs will require really good cooling
Windows 11 is required for ideal performance. Windows 10 and Linux will improve over time
Premium Priced Motherboards And DDR5 RAM
Relatively High Power Consumption At The Top End
New LGA1700 motherboards required
Some workloads get scheduled onto wrong cores
Energy efficiency worse than AMD Zen 3
No CPU cooler included
Testing games with integrated graphics was bumpy
And slower than AMD's competition
Z690 platform demands high cost of adoption
Versus CPU purchase price
At launch
Not compatible with some games that use Denuvo DRM protection
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Published: 2022-04-05, Author: John , review by: pcmag.com
Abstract: Trying to figure out the best CPU for your next PC upgrade or DIY build? With apologies to Robert Frost, it's the classic two roads that parted in the wood—if the wood were a shopping-results page at Newegg or Amazon, and the road kept dividing endlessly...
Published: 2022-04-05, Author: John , review by: pcmag.com
Abstract: Trying to figure out the best CPU for your next PC upgrade or DIY build? With apologies to Robert Frost, it's the classic two roads that parted in the wood—if the wood were a shopping-results page at Newegg or Amazon, and the road kept dividing endlessly...
As we make good headway into 2022 and beyond, the dynamic of the CPU market is constantly changing and evolving. What was once for many years a war based on core count on chips between Intel and AMD has now become a battle of whose core performs more effi...
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Published: 2021-12-05, Author: Paul , review by: tomshardware.com
The Intel Core i9-12900K is the fastest gaming processor on the planet while the Core i5-12600K offers unprecedented gaming performance at its price point. Whip in superior pricing and excellent performance in all other types of workloads, and both Alder...
Published: 2021-11-30, Author: Rob , review by: techgage.com
Intel's 12thgen is superfast, both in singleand multithread scenarios, We saw great performance from both tested chips in encoding and rendering tests, The Core i912900K beat out AMD's Ryzen 9 5950X more often than not in our tests, Intel's genovergen imp
Power consumption at load is a lot higher than the respective AMD competition, The higherend 12thgen SKUs will require really good cooling, Windows 11 is required for ideal performance. Windows 10 and Linux will improve over time
Since Techgage launched over fifteen-years-ago, we've used and thoroughly benchmarked every Intel CPU generation to come along. After a while, things admittedly became a little boring, as we were simply not seeing the kind of gains from gen-to-gen that we...
Published: 2021-11-23, Author: Michael , review by: phoronix.com
Abstract: Given current memory pricing and extremely limited availability of DDR5 memory modules, many Phoronix readers have been requesting DDR4 vs. DDR5 memory benchmarks for Alder Lake on Linux. After picking up a DDR4 Z690 motherboard, here are some reference b...
Published: 2021-11-18, Author: Michael , review by: phoronix.com
For many of the OpenGL and Vulkan benchmarks, the stock Linux 5.13 and Mesa 21.2 stack of Ubuntu 21.10 was "good enough" for the Alder Lake graphics -- sans needing to use the "i915.force_probe=4680" option to have the driver support enabled.Tesseract was...
