Key Differences
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 7 256V
Advantages of Intel Core i7 12700H
Specifications
Performance
| L3 Cache | 12MB (shared) | 24MB (shared) |
| Integrated GPU | Arc Graphics 140V | Iris Xe Graphics (96EU) |
| TGP | 30 W | 15 W |
Display
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
Other
| File compression | 974.9 MB/sec | 907 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | 67.7 Klines/sec | 83.6 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 260.1 pages/sec | 270.3 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 282.1 Mpixels/sec | 350.7 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 298.1 pages/sec | 236.4 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 50.8 images/sec | 44.8 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 105.2 images/sec | 95.7 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 14 Mpixels/sec | 18 Mpixels/sec |
| Integer math | 43 GOps/sec | 89.3 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 58.5 GOps/sec | 64.5 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 193M Primes/sec | 93M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 22.5M Strings/sec | 33.2M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 14 GBytes/sec | 17.4 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 186.4 MBytes/sec | 297.9 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 1602 Frames/sec | 1499 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 15.8B Matrices/sec | 17.7B Matrices/sec |
| Cinebench 2024 / Watt | 15.7 PPW | 18.9 PPW |
| Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt | 290.1 PPW | 248.1 PPW |
| Passmark CPU Mark / Watt | 529.4 PPW | 564.3 PPW |
| Blender / Watt | 2.35 PPW | 4.4 PPW |
| Vendor | Intel | Intel |
| Released | September 4, 2024 | January 4, 2022 |
| Instruction Set | x86-64 | x86-64 |
| Codename | Lunar Lake | Alder Lake |
| Model number | 256V | i7-12700H |
| P-Cores | 4 | 6 |
| P-Threads | 4 | 12 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 2.2 GHz | 2.3 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (P) | 4.8 GHz | 4.7 GHz |
| E-Cores | 4 | 8 |
| E-Threads | 4 | 8 |
| Base Frequency (E) | 2.2 GHz | 1.7 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (E) | 3.7 GHz | 3.5 GHz |
| Total Cores | 8 | 14 |
| Total Threads | 8 | 20 |
| Bus Frequency | 100 MHz | 100 MHz |
| Multiplier | 22x | 23x |
| L1 Cache | 192K (per core) | 80K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 2560K (per core) | 1280K (per core) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No | No |
| Fabrication Process | 3 nm | 10 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | 17-37 W (configurable) | 35-45 W (configurable) |
| Max. Boost TDP (PL2) | 37 W | 115 W |
| Socket | FCBGA-2833 | BGA-1744 |
| Peak Temperature | 100°C | 100°C |
| Integrated Graphics | Intel Arc Graphics 140V | Intel Iris Xe Graphics (96EU) |
| GPU Base Clock | 600 MHz | 300 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | 1950 MHz | 1400 MHz |
| Shading Units | 1024 | 768 |
| Memory Types | - LPDDR5X-8533 | - DDR5-4800 - DDR4-3200 - LPDDR5-5200 - LPDDR4x-4267 |
| Max. Memory Size | 16 GB | 64 GB |
| Memory Channels | 2 | 2 |
| ECC Support | No | No |
| Official Site | Intel Core Ultra 7 256V official page | Intel Core i7 12700H official page |
| PCI Express Version | 5.0 | 4.0 |
| PCI Express Lanes | 8 | 28 |
| Rival Equivalent | - | AMD Ryzen 7 6800H |
| TMUs | - | 48 |
| ROPs | - | 24 |
| Execution Units | - | 96 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | - | - |