Monday, June 16th 2025
Intel Readies Core 5 120F Socket LGA1700 Processor
Intel is breathing new life into the Socket LGA1700 platform by giving it its fourth processor model generation, under the Core 100-series branding. These chips are based on the "Bartlett Lake-S" microarchitecture, but are designed to capture value price points. The main target of these chips are the gaming PC crowd. "Bartlett Lake-S" is a derivative of "Raptor Lake" but with the E-core clusters physically absent, and the chips only having "Raptor Cove" P-cores. A marketing slide for a new entry-level chip came to light, the Core 5 120F.
The Intel Core 5 120F is probably being designed for a sub-$150 price-point. The company's marketing material makes it abundantly clear that gamers that want maxed out 1080p AAA gaming experiences are the target audience of this chip. Core 5 120F comes with a 6-core/12-thread CPU, with six "Raptor Cove" P-cores, and no E-cores. The company didn't specify L2 cache size, but these are likely 1.25 MB per core. The six cores share an 18 MB L3 cache. It's highly likely that this particular silicon is physically similar to the "Alder Lake" H0 die, which also lacks any E-core clusters, physically only has six P-cores, and an 18 MB L3 cache. The Core 5 120F ticks at 2.50 GHz base frequency, with a 4.50 GHz maximum boost. It features a 2-channel DDR5 memory interface, supporting DDR5-4800 native memory speed, with support for up to 192 GB memory. The chip comes with 65 W processor base power.
Intel is also giving finishing touches to a large new monolithic silicon under the "Bartlett Lake-S" series, which physically has 12 "Raptor Cove" P-cores, each with 2 MB of L2 cache, no E-core clusters, and 36 MB of shared L3 cache. This is a classic multicore processor with 12-core/24-thread configuration purely with P-cores, and Intel will look to give it gaming performance that at least matches the Core i9-14900KS. The lure of 12 P-cores on a common CPU complex sharing an L3 cache, could attract gamers to the chip.
Sources:
momomo_us (Twitter), VideoCardz
The Intel Core 5 120F is probably being designed for a sub-$150 price-point. The company's marketing material makes it abundantly clear that gamers that want maxed out 1080p AAA gaming experiences are the target audience of this chip. Core 5 120F comes with a 6-core/12-thread CPU, with six "Raptor Cove" P-cores, and no E-cores. The company didn't specify L2 cache size, but these are likely 1.25 MB per core. The six cores share an 18 MB L3 cache. It's highly likely that this particular silicon is physically similar to the "Alder Lake" H0 die, which also lacks any E-core clusters, physically only has six P-cores, and an 18 MB L3 cache. The Core 5 120F ticks at 2.50 GHz base frequency, with a 4.50 GHz maximum boost. It features a 2-channel DDR5 memory interface, supporting DDR5-4800 native memory speed, with support for up to 192 GB memory. The chip comes with 65 W processor base power.
48 Comments on Intel Readies Core 5 120F Socket LGA1700 Processor
The first thing i check is the cache size, the instruction set and the architecture. Names means nothing these days
It's just going to get paired with 200-350W GPU.
4790K was 4.4GHz
If Intel were to market an actual gaming CPU they woulda gone for something with 12 non-HT blazing fast cores plus some 3DVCache equivalent. But that's a gaming-only CPU, it woulda sucked in working tasks compared to much more efficient E-core models.
There is nothing wrong with E-cores. And the lack of a K designation makes it clear the processor is locked.This is literally another i5-12400F re-release...No physical changes from 12400F if alleged specs hold, but the 5500X3D is exclusive to Latam market and the 5600X3D was never available here
Does the market really need something between the 12400F and the 13/14400F, though?
P-Cores are all +200Mhz vs RPL.
So the interesting part here for most on LGA 1700 would be the possible 12P 0E chip.
Or perhaps worded properly, it looks like the first leaked product is a refreshed Golden Cove only chip instead of the expected Raptor Cove.
The others probably are proper Raptor chips, not the 120F based on leaks however.
Kinda sad that Intel is still doing this in 2025, Raptor Lake is almost 3 years old by now.No, the price difference is minimal anyways.
As is typical with these products you're better off getting the significantly cheaper product or the slightly more expensive one with some E-cores.
As you're well aware, the 14th gen is a fake generation as no models feature new silicon at all, and these Core 3/7/9 re-re-releases don't seem to, either.If you consider that Raptor Cove is just a cache bumped Golden Cove, these CPUs are actually around 5 years old ISA-wise. 12th Gen released just a little after Zen 3. BTW, it´s 100% going to be an Alder H0 chip, if we go by the Core 3 201E processor which is H0...
www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_3/Intel-Core%203%20201E.html