While Intel’s flagship i9-12900K may be stealing the headlines today, the mid-range i5-12600K is arguably more impressive. Comprised of six Performance cores and four Efficient cores, for a total of 16 threads, this processor comes with a more palatable £290 asking price. That puts it head to head with the popular Ryzen 5 5600X, but is it a battle Intel can win?
Watch via our Vimeo channel (below) or over on YouTube at 2160p HERE
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
00:15 Introduction
00:58 Test Bench (see i9-12900K review for more details)
01:30 BIOS overview
02:47 How the processor behaves
03:33 Intel Extreme Tuning Utility V7.5.3.3 and Overclocking
05:15 Performance test results
07:00 Gaming test results
08:15 Memory bandwidth and latency results
08:46 Performance per £
08:59 Performance per watt
09:10 Power Consumption
09:33 Temperatures
09:50 Leo is blown away … his thoughts
Test System:
- Processor: Intel Core i5-12600K (6P+4E cores/16 threads)
- CPU Cooler: Corsair H150i Elite LCD
- Motherboard: MSI Z690 Unify BIOS 1.0F
- Memory: 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5-5200
- Graphics card: Palit RTX 3080 Gaming Pro 10GB
- Power supply: Seasonic Prime Titanium 850W
- SSD: 500GB Sabrent Rocket 4.0 M.2 NVMe
- OS: Windows 11
The Intel Core i5-12600K is available from Overclockers UK for £289.99 HERE.
See our i9-12900K review HERE.
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Pros:
- Top gaming performance at a sensible price.
- Six P cores plus four E cores beats Ryzen 5 hollow.
- Excellent value for money.
- Runs nice and cool under load.
- We found 500MHz overclocking was quick and simple.
Cons:
- You need a new 600-series motherboard and right now that means Z690.
- Core i5 uses about 40W more than Ryzen 5 under load.
KitGuru says: We’ll be updating this review with more information and benchmarks shortly, but for now everything you need to know is outlined in the video above!
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