Review: Core i5 12600K processor

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  1. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    With six performance cores and four energy-efficient ones, the Core i5 12600K might become a budget-friendly yet really well-performing Alder Lake series processor. It offers heaps of performance, tie...

    Review: Core i5 12600K processor
     
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    mackintosh Maha Guru

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    Now this, compared to the lackluster 12900K is much more impressive. Definitely a top dog for gaming. Might be the go-to for a lot of people who are in the market right now.
     
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    Overclocking part shows i9 12900K :) rather than i5 12600K.
     
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    This is the only cpu to buy however the new platform is costly as well as DDR5.

    Nonetheless Intel is back in the game which is still a bit wierd to say, AMD have to drop prices and everyone wins here since the Ryzen 5000 value didn't really drop a lot(high end at least).
     

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    This is the new gaming CPU to get. It should get better as a few months pass and DDR5 gets cheaper. I'm so happy Intel is back competing.
     
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    MAYBE the 12600 KF might be the new gaming king since it is basically a 5.3 GHZ Ryzen 5600x at this point with on par IPC!

    I wish they would consider a 12500Kf without those 4 littles cores at $199

    or maybe a 12650KF with 8 big cores, without the little cores as well at $349

    AMD, show me the money now!
     
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    I am a bit confused about that IPC results. Is it the same as Zen 3? I expected it to be more like 10% above Zen 3. Or is this the case in this specific test (cinebench r15)? Given how big the P cores are (2x the size of zen 3 cores), intel is not getting a lot of performance from these.

    Here are tweaktown's results: https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/9974/intel-core-i9-12900k-alder-lake-cpu/index.html

    they should adl being 15% better than zen 3. (601 points vs 516 points).
     
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    Wow, the gaming performance on the 12600k is just w00w. Beating the 5950x which is almost twice the price.
     
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    Am I the only one not impressed?
    350w for a i5 overclocked.

    Just makes Ryzen on DDR5 even morenanticipiated.
     
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    Awesome review Boss. This is the cpu to get , much more interesting , fast and not a furnace to cool down :).
     

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    that's result for i9 12900k, Hilbert probably did a copy and paste by mistake :)
     
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    Yeah. AMD's 5000 series prices aren't very competitive against this. You might argue the extra cost of DDR5 would even the playfield, but marketing doesn't really work that way.
     
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    This 12600k really pulls ahead. Its fast as 12900k which is impressive. Hopefully amd can now drop the prices on 5000 series. Having a competition is always nice.

    Im still gonna wait things to heat up amd to release zen4 before upgrading.
     
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    I can't imagine anyone on Zen3 5000 upgrading to ADL. Well, except for nizzen, obviously, but that's his thing, so we can allow it.
     
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    No Sir, he did not. The 12600K platform draws that wattage when overclocked.
     
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    It's lot of wattage like stock 3090 levels o_O
     
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    did not expect that,really
    30-40% faster than 5600x in cpu intensive scenes
    zen 3 w.3d cache will only cut that distance in half,maybe.
    impressive gaming cpu,really.
    12600 ddr4.png
    sotr.png

    still,it's what they offer at 250eur that interests me,and only after ddr5 gets more options.
     
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    This must be the most expensive i5 we have ever seen. 399eur for an i5 is where last gen i7 was. Taking into account that ddr5 is so pricy and decent z690 costs 300euros its an expensive platform.
     
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    it's actually cheaper than 5600x at launch
    https://geizhals.de/intel-core-i5-12600kf-bx8071512600kf-a2613601.html

    and 10eur more expensive than 56000x sells for now
    https://geizhals.de/?fs=5600x&hloc=at&hloc=de&hloc=eu&hloc=pl&hloc=uk

    same launch msrp,but intel is available.5600x never saw msrp prices in shops until mid-2021
     
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