Neowin News Feed for: I9-12900k

AMD Ryzen 7950X and 7600X benchmarks suggest the latter isn't a 12900K killer by miles

Sayan Sen — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 17:32:01 +0000

The first benchmarks for the hexacore AMD Ryzen 5 7600X and the 16 core Ryzen 9 7950X have leaked. While the 16 core part has put up a truly impressive showing, the Ryzen 7600X is far less convincing. Read more...

AMD is once again the gaming king as the 5800X3D easily dispatches Intel's Core i9-12900KF

Sayan Sen — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 11:00:01 +0000

AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7 5800X3D, due to launch in a week's time, is easily able to beat Intel's latest 12th Gen Alder Lake-S flagship Core i9 parts in games that really utilize the new 3D V-cache. Read more...

AMD's $449 Ryzen 7 5800X3D apparently stomps Intel's $739 5GHz+ Core i9-12900KS in gaming

Sayan Sen — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 21:18:01 +0000

An early gaming benchmark of the upcoming AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D shows that it is easily able to beat Intel's much more expensive Core i9-12900KS. The i9 costs $739 while the 5800X3D is priced at $449. Read more...

Unlike Windows 11, Linux 5.16 is totally caught off guard by Alder Lake's big.LITTLE form

Sayan Sen — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 07:06:01 +0000

Linux 5.16-rc1 came out Sunday and an early performance look at the new kernel on Intel's Alder Lake has given really poor results. It's speculated that a recently added feature is causing the issue. Read more...

Windows 11 performance overwhelms Linux on Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake-S Core i9-12900K PC

Sayan Sen — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 08:56:01 +0000

When Intel and Microsoft stated that the 12h Gen Alder Lake architecture is optimized for Windows 11, they probably didn't lie as suggested by benchmarks run on both platforms using a Core i9-12900K. Read more...

Core i9-12900K(F) on Z690 is smashing records left and right, but 8GHz OC seems far fetched

Sayan Sen — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 15:18:01 +0000

ASRock has announced today that its overclocking (OC) records on Alder Lake-S using the Z690 AQUA OC board have been validated by HWBOT. Meanwhile, Gigabyte has denied that it faked its 8GHz CPU-Z OC. Read more...

Charlie Demerjian: Intel used unoptimized Windows 11 build to downplay AMD performance

Sayan Sen — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 08:46:01 +0000

Intel at its Innovation event allegedly used an older Windows 11 build - which had issues on Ryzen - to showcase its performance advantages with Alder Lake-S, claims Charlie Demerjian. Read more...

Leaked slide shows Core i9-12900K is allegedly up to 30% faster than Ryzen 9 5950X in gaming

Sayan Sen — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 11:44:01 +0000

Slides showing the purported pricing and gaming performance of Intel's upcoming Alder Lake-S lineup have leaked. The flagship Core i9-12900K is seemingly up to 30% faster than Ryzen 9 5950X at gaming. Read more...

Someone manages to buy Intel's Core i9-12900K CPU early, but cannot use it... yet

Sayan Sen — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 14:48:02 +0000

A Reddit user has posted photos of a retail version of Intel's Alder Lake-S flagship Core i9-12900K that they managed to purchase early. Elsewhere, Microcenter has also started listing the CPUs. Read more...

The new Acer Predator Orion 7000 is a Windows 11 gaming PC packing Intel's Alder Lake-S CPUs

Sayan Sen — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 15:20:01 +0000

Acer has launched its new Predator Orion 7000 Windows 11 gaming desktops packing Intel's upcoming Alder Lake-S platform alongside Nvidia's RTX 3090. They sport plenty of options and ARGB lighting. Read more...

Alleged Core i9-12900K leak suggests Alder Lake will be a total champ at RAM overclocking

Sayan Sen — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 17:48:01 +0000

A purported new leak for the upcoming Alder Lake-S flagship Core i9-12900K shows the processor is easily able to overclock DDR5 kits by insane amounts suggesting that the CPUs will pack a strong IMC. Read more...

Intel Alder Lake-S, i9-12900K and more, apparently launching sooner than previously rumored

Sayan Sen — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 11:48:01 +0000

MSI has unveiled a free upgrade kit program for a couple of its coolers on Alder Lake-S LGA1700 socket. As a result, the vendor has seemingly confirmed the launch date for Intel's upcoming CPUs. Read more...

First official review for Alder Lake-S Core i9-12900K shows mixed results

Sayan Sen — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 14:54:01 +0000

Official benchmarks for Intel's upcoming Alder Lake-S flagship Core i9-12900K have been released today by SiSoftware. It has been compared with the last-gen Rocket Lake 11900K and AMD's Ryzen 9 5900X. Read more...

More Alder Lake-S Core i9-12900K benchmarks leak, splendid performance but maybe not always

Sayan Sen — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 13:32:01 +0000

Today, purported SiSoft Sandra and Cinebench R23 results for Intel's Alder Lake-S Core i9-12900K leaked. While the latter's score is quite impressive, the same cannot be said for Sandra. Read more...

Intel Alder Lake-S Core i9-12900K trounces the Ryzen 9 5950X in AotS with ease

Sayan Sen — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 07:28:01 +0000

AMD's Ryzen 9 5950X is nearly 30% slower than the upcoming Intel 12th gen Alder Lake-S flagship Core i9 12900K SKU, according to leaked Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation benchmark numbers. Read more...

Alleged launch date for Intel 12th gen Alder Lake and Z690 leaks

Sayan Sen — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 22:18:01 +0000

According to a new report today, Intel is purportedly launching its upcoming 12th gen Performance Hybrid-based Alder Lake-S desktop processors and Z690 chipset motherboards in November this year. Read more...

Latest Intel XTU is designed to get the best out of upcoming 12th gen Alder Lake CPUs

Sayan Sen — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 16:08:01 +0000

Intel's latest XTU tuning tool, version 7.5.0.29, has Alder Lake support indicating that the launch of the new architecture is close. It also carries new feature additions specific to Alder Lake. Read more...

Alder Lake-S Core i9-12900K leak suggests performance might be underwhelming

Sayan Sen — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 08:22:01 +0000

Leaked performance numbers for Intel's upcoming Alder Lake-S Core i9-12900K in Adobe's After Effects (AE) suggests that the upcoming Intel CPU could disappoint, at least in some of the workloads. Read more...

Only top-end Alder Lake-S and Z690 parts allegedly landing this year, says report

Sayan Sen — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 15:24:01 +0000

Intel's Alder Lake-S platform is expected to arrive later this year. However, a new report claims that only higher-end parts are arriving first, followed later by the others in 2022. Read more...

Detailed specifications of Alder Lake-S Core i9-12900K and more SKUs reportedly leak

Sayan Sen — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 07:02:01 +0000

Only a couple of days after we came to know about the potential performance of the Alder Lake-S flagship Core i9-12900K, we have a new leak today that allegedly details the specs of the upcoming CPUs. Read more...

16C/24T Intel Core i9-12900K Alder Lake-S reportedly batters the 16C/32T Ryzen 9 5950X

Sayan Sen — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 13:58:01 +0000

The Alder Lake-S lineup launch seems not too distant with the rumored arrival being Q3 or Q4. Today we have alleged scores of the flagship Alder Lake-S CPU which apparently outdoes even the 5950X. Read more...