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Intel Core i7-12700H
The chip that put Intel back in the multi-core fight. Alder Lake-H pairs six Golden Cove P-cores with eight Gracemont E-cores, and the i7-12700H still powers a huge slice of the RTX 30- and 40-series gaming laptops on the second-hand market.
Pros
- 14 cores and 20 threads at mainstream i7 pricing
- Roughly 40% more multi-threaded throughput than the i7-11800H
- 96-EU Iris Xe iGPU handles light gaming and media work
- Flexible platform: DDR5, LPDDR5 and DDR4 all supported
- Widely available in every laptop chassis class
Cons
- Draws up to 115W in turbo and needs serious cooling
- Intel 7 node is well behind TSMC 4nm on perf-per-watt
- Single-core speed now trails cheaper modern chips
- No AI accelerator, so no Copilot+ features
Below average
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the Intel Core i7-12700H
General
- Announced
- 2022
- Process
- 10 nm
- Base TDP
- 45 W
- Max TDP
- 115 W
Cores & Clocks
- Cores
- 14
- Performance cores
- 6
- Efficiency cores
- 8
- Threads
- 20
- Base clock
- 2.3 GHz
- Boost clock
- 4.7 GHz
- L3 cache
- 24 MB
Integrated GPU
- iGPU
- Intel Iris Xe (96 EU)
- iGPU clock
- 1,400 MHz
Memory
- Memory support
- DDR5-4800 / LPDDR5-5200 / DDR4-3200
- Max memory
- 64 GB
Benchmarks
- Geekbench 6 (single)
- 2,400
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 12,200
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 1,760
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 16,900
- PassMark
- 26,800
Quick answers
Is the Intel Core i7-12700H good in 2026?
The Intel Core i7-12700H earns an Inno Score of 44/100 (“Below average”) based on its specs and benchmark results. The chip that put Intel back in the multi-core fight. Alder Lake-H pairs six Golden Cove P-cores with eight Gracemont E-cores, and the i7-12700H still powers a huge slice of the RTX 30- and 40-series gaming laptops on the second-hand market.
What are the key specs of the Intel Core i7-12700H?
Cores: 14 · Threads: 20 · Boost clock: 4.7 GHz · Base TDP: 45 W
What are the closest alternatives to the Intel Core i7-12700H?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are Apple M1 Pro (10-core), Intel Core Ultra 5 226V, Intel Core i7-1360P — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
