Intel i9-12900F CPU 3.8GHz (5.1GHz Turbo) 12th Gen LGA1700 16-Cores 24-Threads 30MB 65W Graphic Card Required Retail Box Alder Lake Essentials Product Collection 12th Generation Intel® Core™ i9 Processors Code Name Products formerly Alder Lake Vertical Segment Desktop Processor Number i9-12900F Status Launched Launch Date Q1'22 Lithography Intel 7 Use Conditions PC/Client/Tablet CPU Specifications Total Cores 16 # of Performance-cores 8 # of Efficient-cores 8 Total Threads 24 Max Turbo Frequency 5.10 GHz Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 Frequency ‡ 5.10 GHz Performance-core Max Turbo Frequency 5.00 GHz Efficient-core Max Turbo Frequency 3.80 GHz Performance-core Base Frequency 2.40 GHz Efficient-core Base Frequency 1.80 GHz Cache 30 MB Intel® Smart Cache Total L2 Cache 14 MB Processor Base Power 65 W Maximum Turbo Power 202 W Supplemental Information Embedded Options Available No Memory Specifications Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type) 128 GB Memory Types Up to DDR5 4800 MT/s Up to DDR4 3200 MT/s Max # of Memory Channels 2 Max Memory Bandwidth 76.8 GB/s Expansion Options Direct Media Interface (DMI) Revision 4 Max # of DMI Lanes 8 Scalability 1S Only PCI Express Revision 5.0 and 4.0 PCI Express Configurations ‡ Up to 1x16+4 | 2x8+4 Max # of PCI Express Lanes 20