Wednesday, July 14th 2021
Intel Core i9-12900K Qualification Sample Reportedly Beats AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
The Intel Core i9-12900K is the companies upcoming flagship 12th Generation Alder Lake-S processor featuring a hybrid design with 8 high-performance cores and 8 high-efficiency cores. The qualification sample for the processor reportedly features a base clock of 3.9 GHz and a boost clock of 5.3 GHz which is less than initial rumors which claimed boost speeds could reach 5.5 GHz. The processor achieved a multi-core score of 11300 points in Cinebench R20 which is 800 points higher than AMD's flagship Ryzen 9 5950X. Intel's 12th Generation Alder Lake-S processors will be manufactured on the 10 nm Enhanced SuperFin node and will include support for PCIe 5.0 and DDR5. Intel is expected to announce the processors in Q3 2021 for a Q4 2021 release which will position them against AMD's upcoming V-Cache technology expected to arrive in early 2022.
Sources:
NGA.cn, VideoCardz
38 Comments on Intel Core i9-12900K Qualification Sample Reportedly Beats AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
And the title should mention this is one benchmark cinebench.
I mean, three months after early reviews, and there is just a trickle here on Newegg.
www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100157995%20601312452
Adding more cores will be a bit harder to manufacture than Tiger Lake H.
spin faster spin machine
very useful for binning chips.
Like for real don't be a child the hope is that both companies keep coming out with chips to put class the other back and forth on and on.
That's only good news for everyone.
It's when Intel leads for over a decade and has no competition that we end where we were before.
Now that they actually have to try it should ultimately be more power for everyone and maybe amd will once again look to price as a way to get the edge instead of just rising to meet and even exceed Intel.
And the supposed numbers are behind a tuned 5950x It may be competitive in gaming and I hope it to be, and it better be competitive in power usage because I don't see it beating amd in overall multithreaded. AMD also plans to combat it by slapping on more L3 cache for a free 15% performance boost.
Here is the best estimate for the 12900K performance in CineBench R20:
1) Single Core 745
2) Multi-Core 8,620.
If the 12900K uses exclusively DDR5 memory, then the gaming performance will be below that of the 11900K
Without overclocking and staying completely within specs, my 5950X gets a CineBench R20 score of around 12,100 whereby my ambient temp in the room is 30 degrees Celsius (87 Fahrenheit) and I am using non exotic cooling (360 Rad AlphaCool Eisbaer).
There again, as opposed to the Tech Media or Tech YouTubers, I put in the months of work to actually learn how to configure 3rd/4th Gen Ryzen CPU where they - even two years after launch - are still oblivious.
I documented how to configure 3rd/4th Gen Ryzen in an article I posted on the AMD Red Team forum almost a year and a half ago in March of 2020.