https://wccftech.com/intel-core-i7-12700-alder-lake-cpu-up-to-15-faster-than-ryzen-7-5800x-multi-threaded-benchmarks/ > The latest benchmarks of Intel's Core i7-12700 Alder Lake CPU have leaked out within Geekbench 5 & showcases performance faster than AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X. > The Intel Core i7-12700 is listed to feature 8 cores and 16 threads however its actual configuration should be 12 cores of which 8 are based on the Golden Cove & 4 should be based on the Goldmont architecture. This should give us a total of 20 threads (16 threads from performance cores and 4 threads from efficiency cores). As for the clock speeds, since this is an engineering sample, we are looking at a base clock speed of 2.10 GHz and a boost clock speed of up to 4.80 GHz.