Following an Ashes of the Singularity leak that showed impressive gains for the midrange Alder Lake part, the CPU-Z leak shows the 12600K demolishing the competing AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, while edging out the far costlier flagship Rocket Lake i9-11900K. .

The i5-12600K handed in a single-threaded score of 746, substantially higher than the speediest Ryzen in the comparison, the Ryzen 9 5900X, which managed just 648, and behind only the i7-12700K and i9-12900K.

The multithreaded scores are even more eye-opening.