Sunday, September 26th 2021
SiSoftware Compiles Early Performance Preview of the Intel Core i9-12900K
It's not every day that a software company that specializes in benchmarking software decides to compile the performance data of unreleased products found in their online database, but this is what SiSoftware just did for the Intel Core i9-12900K. So far, it's a limited set of tests that have been run on the CPU and what we're looking at here is a set of task specific benchmarks. SiSoftware doesn't provide any system details, so take these numbers for what they are.
The benchmarks consist of three categories, Vector SIMD Native, Cryptographic Native and Financial Analysis Native. Not all tests have been run on the Core i9-12900K and SiSoftware themselves admit that they don't have enough data points to draw any final conclusions. Unlike other supposedly leaked benchmark figures, the Core i9-12900K doesn't look like a clear winner here, as it barely beats the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X in some tests, while it's beaten by it and even the Core i9-11900K in other tests. It should be noted that the Core i9-11900K does use AVX512 where supported which gives it a performance advantage to the other CPUs in some tests. We'll let you make up your own mind here, but one thing is certain, we're going to have to wait for proper reviews before the race is over and a winner is crowned.
Update: As the original article was taken down and there were some useful references in it, you can find a screen grab of it here.
Sources:
SiSoftware, via @TUM_APISAK
The benchmarks consist of three categories, Vector SIMD Native, Cryptographic Native and Financial Analysis Native. Not all tests have been run on the Core i9-12900K and SiSoftware themselves admit that they don't have enough data points to draw any final conclusions. Unlike other supposedly leaked benchmark figures, the Core i9-12900K doesn't look like a clear winner here, as it barely beats the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X in some tests, while it's beaten by it and even the Core i9-11900K in other tests. It should be noted that the Core i9-11900K does use AVX512 where supported which gives it a performance advantage to the other CPUs in some tests. We'll let you make up your own mind here, but one thing is certain, we're going to have to wait for proper reviews before the race is over and a winner is crowned.
Update: As the original article was taken down and there were some useful references in it, you can find a screen grab of it here.
69 Comments on SiSoftware Compiles Early Performance Preview of the Intel Core i9-12900K
Also the dual ddr4/5 support is a definite plus, but will be interesting how many mobos actually support it.
The latest setting under win11 (build 22000.194) ~
Anything else = Fail
Puts the geekbench and Avx edition cinebench scores in proper perspective.
Intel clearly hopes we'll ditch anything not avx512, doubtful.
And clearly a return of Intel's artful Dodger testing, independent reviews only please because Intel's blurb isn't worth the typing.
It's okay to have only garbage data, but it's not okay to pretend them to be groundbreaking and spread them.
Here's a screenshot of the whole article since it has been taken down, just in case more people want to claim things like it isn't optimized for Intel's hybrid architecture, or that the results are invalid because it's running on Windows 10, or whatever other justification they want to come up with beyond "the product isn't out yet."
It will depend on whether either Alder Lake or Zen4 include both DDR4 and DDR5 controllers on die.
In consumer applications, the feature is mostly irrelevant because mobo's will just build around DDR5. Although there are exceptions as Muaadib pointed out.
I'm not saying it can't, but Intel has some catching up to beat 5950X.