The latest benchmarks of Intel's Core i7-12700 Alder Lake CPU have leaked out within Geekbench 5 & showcases performance faster than AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X.

Intel Core i7-12700 Alder Lake CPU Benchmarked, Faster Than The Ryzen 7 5800X In Both Single & Multi-Core Tests

The Intel Core i7-12700 is listed to feature 8 cores and 16 threads however its actual configuration should be 12 cores of which 8 are based on the Golden Cove & 4 should be based on the Goldmont architecture. This should give us a total of 20 threads (16 threads from performance cores and 4 threads from efficiency cores). As for the clock speeds, since this is an engineering sample, we are looking at a base clock speed of 2.10 GHz and a boost clock speed of up to 4.80 GHz.

As for the cache, well first thing's first, existing software suites aren't fully updated to recognize the Alder Lake-S hybrid CPUs fully, as such, the actual core and thread count may be inaccurate. This is the case here as the chip is actually identified as an 8 core and 16 thread CPU while in actuality, it should be 12 core and 20 threads. More details on the cache configuration of Alder Lake-S CPUs can be found here.

The L3 cache count falls in line with the previous rumors which placed the Core i7-12700K at 25 MB cache. It looks like the cache will be cut down on certain Alder Lake-S configurations with this chip in particular rocking 2.75 MB (3 MB full) L3 cache on performance and a 3 MB cache per efficiency core cluster. Additionally, the performance was measured on a Q670 chipset platform with 32 GB of memory as discovered by Harukaze.

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Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake Desktop CPU Specs