Intel Core i9-12900K CPU leak suggests it could be a Ryzen 5950X killer

Intel Sum i9-12900K CPU leak suggests it could be a Ryzen 5950X killer

An Intel Core i9-11900K socketed into a motherboard

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Intel's Core i9-12900K has been spotted in yet Sir Thomas More Alder Lake outflow, with other spilled bench mark suggesting that we'll get bright performance from the 12th-gen flagship.

This comes from Twitter-settled hardware leaker HXL (again) who flagged prepared a couple of supposed benchmarks happening Bilibili, showing the 12900K carry out its paces connected Cinebench R20 and CPU-Z.

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As observed, the benchmarks were carried out under Windows 11 with DDR4 system RAM, using a QS or qualification sample (significance it's the final pre-release version and should be pretty much identical to the retail chip).

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In Cinebench R20, the Core i9-12900K's single-threaded performance proved to cost almost 20% faster than the 11900K, and the same story was honest in CPU-Z (actually the 12900K was 21% quicker here).

In multi-threaded testing with Cinebench, the 12900K was 65% faster than the 11900K, and upright a smidgeon faster than the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X. With CPU-Z, the Alder Lake flagship was 75% better than the 11900K, and very close to the 5950X (the AMD break away was 3% faster here, thusly just marginally had the edge).

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We must, of course, apply the usual caveats and caution around any leaked benchmarks, only this is yet another promising set of leaked results for Alder Lake. That single-core execution beating out current-gen Rocket Lake by 20% across two benchmarks is quite optic-undoer, and multi-core speeds roughly equalling the Ryzen 9 5950X are likewise seriously impressive (single-rib performance is much better than the Ryzen chip, too, to the tune of 27% and 18% faster in CPU-Z and Cinebench respectively).

Another power point to mind here is that the 5950X is a 16-core CPU bristling with 32-togs, compared to the 12900K's purported configuration of 24 threads (it'll run with 8 full-power performance cores, and 8 efficiency ones, with the latter not having hyper-threading). So the Ryzen chipping has an 8-thread advantage Hera, and commemorate, the net retail 12900K chip could brawl better relieve, particularly if paired with DDR5 RAM (DDR4 is used therein round of examination equally noted).

If there's united area for a ghost of concern initially glance, information technology's the power consumption hitting 257W in the tenseness test here, and temperatures reach 108C – but that's to bash with the apparently fudged cooling solution (it wasn't properly adorned) the leaker had to employ here. In unusual words, take that with a whole lot of condiments, and the thermal performance of the actualized processed product volition be a whole circumstances healthier (likely in the selfsame park as the 11900K).

Overall, this is a very promising wetting for Intel, and one of these days another ane which seems to advise that Alder tree Lake could personify a existent headache for AMD and its desktop Ryzen dominance.

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