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Rate My PC: Intel Core i5-12600 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

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Intel Core i5-12600

28,646 Benchmark Score

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The Intel Core i5-12600 paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER is a desktop build that combines a mid-tier 12th-generation Alder Lake CPU with a top-tier Ada Lovelace GPU, and the numbers show exactly the imbalance you'd expect: the CPU sits in the 80th percentile against all CPUs while the GPU lands in the 86th percentile against all GPUs, for a combined percentile of 83. The i5-12600 carries a launch MSRP of $233 and the RTX 4080 SUPER a launch MSRP of 999 USD. Neither part is current-gen frontline hardware — the GPU is listed as end-of-life, the CPU as active — but the pairing remains a strong gaming and creation platform. One important caveat up front: the database contains no measured FPS rows for this exact combination, so every frame-rate statement below is an estimate derived from the benchmark scores rather than recorded in-game data.

Gaming Performance

There are no measured FPS figures for this pairing in the benchmark database — measuredFpsUltraByGame is empty and dataIsMeasured is false — so the following is a qualitative frame-rate picture built from the CPU and GPU scores, not recorded gameplay data.

The starting point is the RTX 4080 SUPER's 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 6600, alongside a PassMark G3D score of 34245. Those are high-end results: the GPU's average benchmark score of 54209 places it within a tenth of a percent of the RTX 4080 (avgScore 54247, deltaPct -0.1) and ahead of the Radeon Pro W5700X by 1.1 percent and the RX 6750 GRE 12 GB by 2.7 percent in the rival table. In practical terms, that class of GPU is aimed at high-refresh 1440p gaming and smooth 4K play with settings turned up.

The CPU side is where estimates need care. The i5-12600 posts a PassMark single-thread score of 3823 and a physics score of 1365 — respectable, but firmly mid-pack. Cinebench R23 single-core sits at 2556 with multi-core at 18105, which indicates the six-core/twelve-thread configuration will hold its own in most game engines but is not the ceiling of the platform. At 4K, where the RTX 4080 SUPER does the overwhelming majority of the work, estimated frame rates should be GPU-bound and essentially fully exploited. At 1440p, most modern titles should remain GPU-limited at high refresh, though CPU-sensitive engines will begin to show the i5's ceiling. At 1080p with high refresh targets, the i5-12600 becomes the likely limiter in demanding titles — the PassMark multithread score of 21399 simply isn't in the same league as the GPU's compute throughput.

Treat all of that as estimated, not measured. The scores define the shape of the performance curve; they do not substitute for per-game testing.

Benchmark Performance

The CPU's raw numbers: Cinebench R15 multi-core 1824, single-core 257; Cinebench R20 multi-core 7604, single-core 1073; Cinebench R23 multi-core 18105, single-core 2556. PassMark covers the rest — multithread 21399, single-thread 3823, integer math 66123, floating point math 50838, physics 1365, data compression 252160, data encryption 13084, extended instructions 17027, and string sorting 25832. The CPU's average benchmark score is 28646, placing it in the 80th percentile of all CPUs in the database.

That average sits in a remarkably tight cluster of rivals. The i5-13500T scores 28670, just 0.1 percent ahead; the EPYC 7203P is at 28583 (0.2 percent behind); the Core 5 220H at 28574 and the Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS at 28549 are each 0.3 percent behind. In other words, this i5 trades blows with a mix of efficiency-oriented and laptop-class parts — it is a solid mid-tier performer, not a workstation CPU wearing a gaming badge.

The GPU's numbers are the story of the build. PassMark G3D 34245, GPU compute 19822, Geekbench OpenCL 219065, Geekbench Vulkan 260075, and 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 6600. PassMark DirectX tests come in at 381 (DX9), 193 (DX10), 301 (DX11), and 134 (DX12), plus G2D at 1270. The average score of 54209 puts the card in the 86th percentile of all GPUs — statistically ahead of 86 percent of the database — and effectively tied with the RTX 4080 itself.

The combined picture: percentile 83 for the pair, dragged down from the GPU's 86 by the CPU's 80. This is a GPU-forward build. Everything the GPU can express — the 52.22 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput, the 736.3 GB/s of memory bandwidth, the 10240 shading units — is fully available. What holds the ceiling down is CPU-side throughput in multi-threaded game and application logic.

FAQ

Q: Are there measured game FPS numbers for the i5-12600 with the RTX 4080 SUPER?

A: No. The database has no measured FPS rows for this combination, so all frame-rate discussion on this page is estimated from the CPU and GPU benchmark scores.

Q: How does the RTX 4080 SUPER compare to its rivals?

A: Its average benchmark score of 54209 is within 0.1 percent of the RTX 4080 (54247), 1.1 percent ahead of the Radeon Pro W5700X, 2.7 percent ahead of the RX 6750 GRE 12 GB, and 2.8 percent ahead of the Radeon 8060S.

Q: Is the i5-12600 a strong CPU for this GPU?

A: It is adequate but not matched to the GPU's tier. The CPU sits in the 80th percentile versus the GPU's 86th, and the CPU's average score of 28646 is nearly identical to a 65-watt-class rival, the i5-13500T (28670).

Q: Can the i5-12600 be overclocked?

A: No. The multiplier is locked, so tuning headroom is limited to what the platform itself allows.

Q: How much VRAM does the RTX 4080 SUPER have, and what type?

A: 16 GB of GDDR6X on a 256-bit bus, delivering 736.3 GB/s of bandwidth with 23 Gbps effective memory speed.

Q: What power supply does this build need?

A: The GPU alone carries a 320 W TDP with a single 16-pin connector, and the suggested PSU for the card is 700 W.

Q: What memory does the i5-12600 support?

A: Both DDR4 and DDR5 on a dual-channel bus, and it offers PCIe Gen 5 with 16 CPU lanes.

Who Should Build It

The target builder is a high-refresh 1440p gamer who wants the GPU to carry the experience. Estimated from the Steel Nomad score of 6600 and the G3D result of 34245, the RTX 4080 SUPER has headroom to spare at that resolution, and the i5-12600's single-thread score of 3823 is enough to feed it in most engines. Content creators doing video editing and 3D rendering also fit — the GPU's 320 tensor cores and 80 RT cores do the heavy lifting in rendering workloads, and the CPU's R23 multi-core score of 18105 handles timeline scrubbing, proxies, and scene preparation without collapsing.

Developers and students get a capable all-rounder. The PassMark data compression score of 252160 and encryption score of 13084 indicate fast build-tool and repository operations, and the integer and floating point scores (66123 and 50838) cover compilation and local test workloads comfortably. Small business workstations are a reasonable fit too — but buyers who need heavy sustained multi-threaded throughput should note that the CPU's average score is statistically identical to an efficiency-tuned i5-13500T, which signals a mid-tier ceiling rather than workstation grunt.

Who should skip it: anyone targeting maximum 1080p refresh rates in CPU-bound competitive titles, or anyone whose workload is purely multi-core-render-bound. In both cases the CPU, not the GPU, sets the limit.

Balance and Bottleneck

The build is GPU-forward and CPU-moderate, and the percentiles quantify it precisely: GPU 86th percentile, CPU 80th, combined 83rd. The gap of six percentile points is the structural imbalance of the pairing.

At 4K, the bottleneck is clearly the GPU — but that is the correct configuration, because it means the RTX 4080 SUPER is running at full utilization while the i5-12600 idles well below its limits. Every one of those 10240 shading units, 112 ROPs, and 320 TMUs is engaged. At 1440p, most titles should remain GPU-bound based on the G3D score, but the margin narrows. At 1080p, the CPU becomes the limiter in demanding engines: a PassMark physics score of 1365 and multithread score of 21399 cannot keep pace with a card whose Vulkan compute score reaches 260075.

There is no measured FPS scaling data for this pair in the database to confirm those transition points, so the resolution thresholds above are estimated from the score differential rather than observed frame-rate scaling. The direction of the imbalance, however, is unambiguous from the percentiles and the rival tables: this is a build where the GPU will wait for the CPU more often than the reverse.

GPU Analysis

The RTX 4080 SUPER is built on the AD103 die, fabricated by TSMC on a 5 nm process, packing 45,900 million transistors into a 379 mm² die — a density of 121.1 million transistors per square millimeter. It clocks at 2295 MHz base and 2550 MHz boost, with GDDR6X memory running at an effective 23 Gbps. That memory subsystem is a genuine strength: 16 GB on a 256-bit bus yielding 736.3 GB/s of bandwidth, enough to keep the 10240 shading units fed at high resolutions and large texture footprints.

Rendering throughput is top-tier. FP32 compute stands at 52.22 TFLOPS, with FP16 at the same rate (1:1). Pixel fill rate is 285.6 GPixel/s and texture fill rate 816.0 GTexel/s across 112 ROPs and 320 TMUs. Ray tracing is handled by 80 RT cores, and AI workloads by 320 tensor cores — a combination the Geekbench scores validate directly: 219065 in OpenCL and 260075 in Vulkan. For GPU rendering, those compute figures mean the card chews through path tracing and AI-assisted denoising pipelines efficiently, and the GPU compute PassMark of 19822 plus Steel Nomad DX12 score of 6600 confirm the card holds up under modern real-time rendering loads.

The card is not small. It is a triple-slot design measuring 310 mm long, 140 mm tall, and 61 mm wide, drawing 320 W through a single 16-pin connector with a suggested 700 W PSU. Connectivity is one HDMI 2.1 and three DisplayPort 1.4a outputs on a PCIe 4.0 x16 interface, and it supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4. Note that the i5-12600 offers PCIe Gen 5 with 16 CPU lanes while the card runs PCIe 4.0 x16 — a mismatch that costs nothing meaningful in practice but is worth knowing. The GPU's production status is end-of-life.

Usage Scenarios

High-refresh gaming. Estimated from the G3D score of 34245 and Steel Nomad 6600, the card targets high-refresh 1440p and smooth 4K. The CPU's single-thread 3823 supports that at 1440p and above; 1080p high-refresh pushes against the CPU ceiling. All figures are estimates — no measured FPS data exists for this pair.

Streaming. The CPU's twelve threads and PassMark multithread score of 21399 can handle encoding alongside gameplay, and the GPU's 52.22 TFLOPS of compute plus NVENC-class hardware (implied by the tensor core count of 320) means the GPU can carry encoding duties while gaming. A viable single-PC streaming setup at 1440p.

Video editing. Six cores is the practical minimum for comfortable editing, and the R23 multi-core score of 18105 confirms competence rather than speed. The GPU does the heavy lifting: 16 GB of VRAM and 736.3 GB/s of bandwidth handle 4K timelines and effects rendering, backed by the OpenCL score of 219065.

3D rendering. The 80 RT cores and 320 tensor cores make this the build's strongest scenario. GPU rendering throughput validated by the Vulkan compute score of 260075 means viewport work and final-frame GPU renders are fast; the CPU's role in scene preparation is adequate at 18105 R23 multi-core but is the slower half of the pipeline.

Software development. Compilers love single-thread speed and moderate parallelism, and the i5-12600 delivers a 3823 single-thread score with a 252160 compression score — repository operations and builds run quickly. This is a strong dev machine that happens to have a serious GPU attached.

Student and office work. Overkill for documents and browsing, but that is the point of headroom. The integrated UHD Graphics 770 means the system can even output video without the discrete card installed, and dual-channel DDR4/DDR5 support keeps the platform flexible.

Build Overview

This is a desktop build — buildClass confirms it — pairing an active-production Intel desktop CPU with an end-of-life NVIDIA flagship-tier GPU. Socket is Intel 1700, the CPU is a 65 W six-core/twelve-thread Alder Lake-S part on Intel's 10 nm process, and the GPU is a 320 W Ada Lovelace card on TSMC 5 nm. The overall tier, per the combined percentile of 83, is high-end with a caveat: the GPU's 86th percentile is what earns that placement, and the CPU's 80th percentile is what caps it. Think of it as a top-tier GPU installed in a mid-tier platform — strong overall, with an obvious upgrade path on the CPU side.

CPU Analysis

The i5-12600 is an Alder Lake-S design on Intel's 10 nm process, with a die size of 163 mm². It runs six cores and twelve threads at a 3.30 GHz base and 4.80 GHz boost, inside a 65 W TDP envelope. The cache hierarchy is 80 KB of L1 and 1.25 MB of L2 per core, with 18 MB of shared L3 — a cache layout that favors gaming responsiveness over heavy multi-threaded batch work. The multiplier is locked, so there is no overclocking route. Integrated UHD Graphics 770 handles display output when the discrete card is absent, and memory support spans both DDR4 and DDR5 on a dual-channel controller, with PCIe Gen 5 and 16 CPU lanes available. ECC is not supported, which rules it out for error-correcting workstation duties.

What the scores say about real workloads: single-thread performance is the strength. The R23 single-core score of 2556 and PassMark single-thread 3823 put responsiveness and lightly threaded applications in a good place — browsers, IDEs, most game engines. Multi-threaded throughput is the compromise. The R23 multi-core score of 18105 and PassMark multithread 21399 place it in the 80th percentile overall, statistically indistinguishable from the i5-13500T, the EPYC 7203P, the Core 5 220H, and the Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS in the rival table. That cluster tells you the ceiling: sustained all-core workloads — long renders, heavy compiles, code analysis across large repositories — run mid-tier pace. Paired with the RTX 4080 SUPER's 86th-percentile throughput, the CPU is the platform's defining constraint, and any future upgrade budget should be weighted accordingly.

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