If you have ever wondered what is the reason for using Ashes of Singularity as a benchmark, the answer is simple: it was the first game to support the DirectX 12 API and therefore it is ideal for measuring the performance of new processors and architectures under such an environment. In the case of the Intel Core 12, its performance becomes more interesting due to the fact that there are games that have a large number of instances and processes that easily occupy the threads available on the processor.
From the moment that an Intel Core 12 there is a part of the cores that have less performance than others, it is always curious to know how the performance of games scales before this type of performance architectures so uneven between the different parts of it. Especially since not all game processes require the same power, but there are no games that are designed for such disparate cores in power.
Here’s how the i5-12600K performs in Ashes of Singularity
At the moment the @ It is the most modest of the processors based on the Alder Lake-S architecture that we will see in the first batch. Waiting for the eventual i5-12400F that we will see in a few months and that will replace the CPU with the best power-to-price ratio of 2021. The Benjamin of the new family has a 10 core configuration, 6 of which are high performance and 4 high efficiency. Let’s not forget that the Alder Lake-S architecture can combine the use of P-Cores and E-Cores at the same time, so in an ideal process layout you can take enormous advantage of it.
Well, the i5-12600K has been put to the test in the Ashes of Singularity benchmark and they have encountered some problems, since the performance test has not yet been optimized for the use of heterogeneous cores simultaneously, causing results disparate depending on what type of core was being used at all times where in the benchmark in mode Crazy 1080p does it move between 39 and 110 frames per second.
Logically, the last figure has to refer to the use of the 6 P-Core cores within the i5-12600K and the lowest one using the 4 E-Core cores. In this mode the maximum score obtained is 10800 points, which places it above the 9800 points from its direct predecessor: the i5-12600K.
As for the comparison with its AMD rival, the Ryzen 5 5600X, its performance in the AoS benchmark in Crazy 1080p mode has been 8100 points. Which means that it has been the one that gets the worst result of the three.
