Intel Core i5 12400
It’s the new Q6600, Dave James’ greatest compliment ever!
SPECS
Socket: LGA1700
Process: Intel 7 10nm
Cores
(P+E): 6 + 0
Threads: 12
Cache: 18MB L3, 7.5MB L2, 480KB L1
Clock: 2.5GHz (4.4GHz turbo)
Unlocked: Complicated
GPU: UHD Graphics 730, 24 EU, 300MHz (1.45GHz Max), OpenGL 4.5, OpenCL 2.1
Memory: 128GB max, No ECC, 2-channel
Memory
speed: DDR5 4800MT/s, DDR4 3200MT/s
PCIe
lanes: 20 (16+4, 2x8+4)
Base power: 65W
Max
power: 117W
The easy approach to this review would be to dismiss the Intel Core i5 12400 as one of the leastinteresting processors from the 12th Gen Alder Lake generation of CPUs. Yet if we did that, we’d be dismissing one of the best mainstream chips ever made.