Intel Core i7, has always been synonymous with high-end processors in consumer products, and has been loved by many game enthusiasts and enthusiasts since its inception.
The latest 12th generation i7 processor system of specifications can be said to be quite powerful, its built-in 12 cores and 20 threads, the use of 8 performance cores and 4 and performance core design, and comes with a large 25 megabit three-level cache, while having a maximum of 5.0GHz Turbo frequency, which makes us look forward to its actual performance.
And we will bring you the most suitable product in the i7 series Intel Core i7-12700KF review, but also to give you some performance reference about 12700K (after all, the only difference between the two of them is whether it has a kernel display), it can be said that killing two birds with one stone!
Intel Core i7-12700KF, just look at the model, presumably everyone has a general understanding of its specifications, "F" stands for nucleus-free display, indeed, and its brothers i7-12700K, i7-12700 compared, it cut the nuclear display UHD770; "K" represents overclocking, compared with 12700 and 12700F and other models, its base frequency is higher (3.6GHz, the latter two are only 2.1GHz), the maximum turbo frequency is also higher (5.0GHz, the latter two are 4.9GHz), and it is not locked, with high-end motherboards such as Z690 can also have a good overclocking space, playability is also relatively high! At the same time, it also natively supports DDR5-4800MHz and DDR4-3200MHz two specifications of high-frequency memory, the maximum compatible memory capacity of 128GB, and support ECC.
Due to the removal of the nuclear display, its boxed price is about 300 yuan less than the big brother 12700K (refer to the Jingdong e-commerce price on June 28), which makes its cost performance very prominent! After all, the vast majority of people who can buy computers on this budget will be paired with a graphics card with good performance, and it does not matter whether there is a nuclear display at this time.
After roughly brushing up the product positioning and specifications, we gossiped less and went directly to the performance test!
Before testing, let's take a general look at our test platform, the choice of three major parts of the motherboard I chose is ROGSTRIXZ690-EGAMINGWIFI and i7-12700KF, and strive to play its best performance, the memory is two Zhiqi DDR5-5200MHz 16G high frequency strip, and the graphics card is from the Asus TUF 3080.
Let's look at the test of CPU theoretical performance first;
The first is the 3DMarkCPUProfile project score, single-thread 1073 points, 2 threads 2121 points, 4 threads 4121 points, 8 threads 7512 points, 16 threads 9521 points, the maximum thread 10184 points, if you still have an impression of our previous i7-11700K reviews, a little comparison is not difficult to find that the improvement of this generation of i7 compared to the previous generation is huge!
In terms of 7-Zip decompression, the i7-12700KF is also very powerful, with a compression score of 107.597GOPS and a decompression score of 118.471 GIPS.
In terms of AIDA64, thanks to the ultra-high bandwidth of DDR5 memory, the memory read performance has reached a staggering 74707MB/s, and the write and copy are also close to 70,000 megabits per second, which was unimaginable a few years ago. In addition, the performance of i7's single and double precision floating-point operations is also very good, after all, it is an i7, and the level of this positioned product must meet more professional-level demands.
Look at the comprehensive performance test that is more in line with practical daily use; The first is PCMark10, as a professional test software with 3DMarker, its test covers the commonly used basic functions, productivity, number for content creation and game four scenarios, the software will give various scores and overall ratings, very close to the actual use of the scene.
Common basic functions score 11681, productivity score 11947, digital content creation score 15928, game score 28519, total score 12376; Any one of them is a very good achievement.
In terms of ULProcyon productivity performance, Office Office productivity scores were 10733 (Word), 8226 (Excel) and 9283 (PPT); Pr video clip export score of 8450, image retouching score of 8603, the overall performance is much better than the previous generation of i7 we tested before.
In CrossMark, the i7-12700KF achieved a good result of 1919 productivity, 2422 creativity, 1840 reaction capacity and 2108 overall scores! Proper first echelon level!
In addition, in order to better understand the performance of the i7-12700KF in the post-film and television period, we also conducted a benchmark test launched by PugetBench for Da Vinci, Pr and Ps to simulate actual use scenarios.
In terms of Leonardo da Vinci, the score reached 1733 points under the standard test and 1585 points in the extended test; The Standard Test for Pr is 1009 points, the Extended Test is 980 points, and the Ps Standard test is 1328 points.
Such performance can also be fully competent to cope with high-intensity film and television post-production work.
In terms of actual game experience, we used five popular AAA game masterpieces such as God of War 4, Eldon's French Ring, Cyberpunk 2077, Tomb Raider: Shadow and Horizon 5 to test, and the results were as follows:
In terms of God of War 4, running a fixed test scene with a special effect full-on quality preset and 4K resolution can get a smooth performance with an average frame rate of 104 frames. The picture is rich in detail and silky smooth, with no sense of caton at all.
The same is true of the Elden Ring, the average frame number is stable at 60 frames under the full opening of the 4K special effects, the minimum 59.7 frames, the highest 60.1 frames, if it is not because the frame number of the game itself is limited to 60 frames, it is estimated that you can still see better frame rate performance, but even so, 60 frames is also the standard of perfect smooth operation.
Next, look at "Cyberpunk 2077", the latest version of Night City now comes with benchmark, which makes our testing much more convenient, the variables are fixed, and the data obtained is more referenced; Under the preset "Ray Tracing: Super" preset, the average frame number can reach 50.77 frames, the minimum frame number is 38.36, and the maximum frame number is 63.87, which also reaches the level of smooth operation!
As the latest sequel to the veteran AAA game series Tomb Series, Tomb Raider has been widely acclaimed since its release, and its built-in benchmark is also a favorite of major media when evaluating the performance of hardware games. In 4K resolution, the image quality preset is turned to the highest, and in DLSS balanced mode, the combination of i7-12700KF + RTX3080 can make the game easily maintain an average frame size of 128 frames, allowing you to experience the charm of the AAA masterpiece breaking hundred frames.
Also energetic is "Horizon 5", as a popular racing AAA masterpiece in recent years, its hardware requirements are also very high, the preset to extreme picture quality, 4K resolution to start, i7-12700KF with RTX3080 can reach the level of 77 frames, perfect smooth operation.
Through the above multiple dimensions of testing, it should not be difficult for you to find that i7-12700KF is a product that performs very well in all aspects and has no shortcomings, which is worthy of Intel's 12th generation Core high-end processor! If you are still struggling between 12700KF and 12700K, I have some suggestions here that you may wish to refer to.
First of all, I plan to start now RTX3080, 3070Ti and other high-end solo display intend to be in place in one step, then I will recommend you to choose 12700KF, the difference between it and 12700K is only in whether the built-in nuclear display, after all, there is a unique nuclear display can not be used, directly choose the 12700KF without the nuclear display, the province of energy small two hundred yuan, is not beautiful?
And if you are only planning to temporarily transition now, or want to wait for the new NVIDIARTX40 series card with stronger performance in the second half of this year, then 12700K will be your good choice, after all, it has a built-in UHD770 nuclear display, to meet the daily office entertainment and even light games or no pressure.
What do you think? After reading this article, do you know how to choose 12700K/12700KF?