Wednesday, October 27th 2021
Final Intel 12th Gen Core CPU Spec and Pricing Leak Hours Before Official Reveal
For those tired of Intel leaks, please look away now, as this is likely to be one of the last leaks before the official reveal later today. The final specifications, as well as pricing for the first six of Intel's 12th Gen Core CPUs has made an appearance online and the good news is that the official pricing isn't as bad as we've been led to believe, based on earlier leaks and it'll at least make up some of the cost increase of the Z690 motherboards over the Z590 models.
Spec wise, we're not looking at anything unexpected here, it simply verifies what has leaked so far, with one exception, maximum turbo power. Although the base TDP of all six CPUs is 125 W, it seems like Intel is using the maximum turbo power as yet another product differentiator, at least more so than it has previously. The Core i9 CPUs get a maximum turbo power of 241 W, whereas the Core i7's top out at 190 W and the Core i5's at 150 W. At least Intel is being open about it and the question is if it will have any affect on overclocking or not. Obviously having fewer CPUs cores would result in a lower power draw overall, but then the question is why the Core i5's have a base TDP of 125 W.
Price wise, the new Core i9-12900K has a 1K list price of US$589, some $80 cheaper than the leaked pricing from Micro Center, but still about $40-50 more expensive than the 11th Gen Core i9-11900K. The KF SKU is $15 cheaper at US$564, which is a smaller margin than between the 11th Gen K and KF SKUs. Moving down a step to the Core i7 CPUs, the 12700K is listed at US$409, with the KF SKU coming in at US$384, which is in line with the 11th Gen Core i7 parts. Finally the Core i5-12600K is listed at US$289, with the KF SKU at US$264, which is about $15-25 higher than the 11th Gen Core i5 equivalents.
Overall it seems like fair pricing, if Intel delivers in terms of performance and based on some Intel game benchmarks, it looks like the 11th Gen CPUs are going to be outperformed quite easily, whereas it looks like AMD might still hold its own in some titles. We'll have to wait for official reviews next week before we can say if this will hold true or not.
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Spec wise, we're not looking at anything unexpected here, it simply verifies what has leaked so far, with one exception, maximum turbo power. Although the base TDP of all six CPUs is 125 W, it seems like Intel is using the maximum turbo power as yet another product differentiator, at least more so than it has previously. The Core i9 CPUs get a maximum turbo power of 241 W, whereas the Core i7's top out at 190 W and the Core i5's at 150 W. At least Intel is being open about it and the question is if it will have any affect on overclocking or not. Obviously having fewer CPUs cores would result in a lower power draw overall, but then the question is why the Core i5's have a base TDP of 125 W.
56 Comments on Final Intel 12th Gen Core CPU Spec and Pricing Leak Hours Before Official Reveal
Besides, there are many unknowns like TDP, final prices of DDR5 memory and Alder Lake processors in the retail market. Have you seen the CD prices on Amazon? Whatever makes sense, it costs £240 (Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Elite) and the average ASUS motherboard prices range between £400-600! It's a mockery to pay as much as £500 for the ASUS Prime Z690-P! Such B550 Aorus Elite is literally twice cheaper than its counterpart on the Z690 :eek:
Apart from who plays Mount and Blade II or Troy? Also, in real terms, the efficiency is higher by several percent. Besides, AMD is still ahead in SoTR, which is heavily reliant on the CPU. If in the other games the difference between Alder Lake and ZEN3 will be up to a dozen percent, AMD with Ryzen 6000 (Zen3 +) with 3D cache will easily catch up, and maybe overtake Intel a bit.
DDR5 is not required for those citing this as an issue. One leaked benchmark showed a 12700K with DDR4-3200 trading blows with the 5950X on PugetBench.
And E-cores has clock so high (3.9-4.2) so that they can perform 1/3 performance of P-cores while using 1/5 power.
The competition for these chips coming out in Q1 2022 will be interesting once we get some full reviews.
Street pricing is usually 10-20% higher than that to account for retailer margins. Then add sales tax.
From what I've seen there is no hard evidence that 12600 is faster than 5800X. And dont say clock speeds, cuz we know that doesnt matter as much anymore...
it was 5600X not 5800X
www.techpowerup.com/288249/intel-core-i5-12600k-47-faster-than-ryzen-5-5600x-in-leaked-cpu-z-benchmark
I give ZERO credibility to leaked Intel PRs, but there are people that take those as gospel, which makes me laugh.
vs 5900X :
Original - the fastest scoring 5950X in their database gets a 1575 vs this 12700K score of 1565 using DDR4 :
The only reason Intel has 8 is to compete with AMD, of course the masses don't usually know what "cores" they're buying so who knows maybe class action lawsuit material :laugh:
Please never run a business...
So basically the same gaming performance vs ADL