The Intel Alder Lake Core i9-12900K has popped up on Geekbench with scores that seem to give it good leads over the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X. The Core i9-12900K is on an average up to 13% and 7% faster in single and multi-core over the Ryzen 9 5950X, which are decent leads. The benchmark seems to have been run on a system running Windows 11 Pro equipped with DDR5-4800 RAM.
Intel s Rocket Lake 11th Gen Core i9-11900K and Core i5-11600K are targeted at gamers and enthusiasts, but will this interesting new architecture be able to take on AMD s many-core Ryzen family, or has the company actually taken a step backwards?
Intel Core i9-11900K Rocket Lake-S CPU Cracks Overclocking World Record At 7.3GHz
Gigabyte is tickled pink that one of its high-end motherboards was used to set an overclocking record with Intel s flagship Core i9-11900K processor based on Rocket Lake. Liquid nitrogen should take a bow as well, because it took frigid temperatures to allow Intel s flagship CPU to hit an insanely high 7,314MHz, which then broke a couple of benchmark records.
The Core i9-11900K just recently made its retail debut, alongside the Core i7-11600K. Underneath the heat-spreader of the higher-end part is a monolithic, 8-core/16-thread design manufactured on Intel s 14nm++ process. At stock settings, it features a 3.5GHz base clock and up to a 5.3GHz turbo frequency, with a rated 125W TDP.