The Intel Core i7-12700 has become the latest Alder Lake processor to break from cover, and it has been spotted on Geekbench performing quite admirably considering it's likely going to be priced at a mid-range level. The 12-core, 20-thread i7-12700's single-core and multi-core results placed it in the same ballpark as the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X.
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