Early Specifications for 12th Gen Intel Core “Alder Lake-S” 16C/24T CPU with 4.6 GHz Boost Leaked

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Intel’s next family of desktop processors, the 12th Gen Core “Alder Lake-S” series, will attempt to fend off AMD’s Ryzen efforts with a clever design that combines high-performance (“big”) cores and high-efficiency (“little”) cores into a single product for improved efficiency. According to a specifications sheet shared by Igor Wallossek, one of these SKUs will be a 16-core, 24-thread CPU that features a base clock of 1.8 GHz, max turbo clock of 4.6 GHz (1 to 2 cores), and a TDP of 125 watts. This is just an engineering sample, however, so some of these specifications are subject to change.







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[Grimlakin]

Looks like one of the big/small setups.

 

[Burticus]

100c CPU temps? Holy cow.

 

[LazyGamer]

100c CPU temps? Holy cow.

That's the max; which is actually a bit low, as Skylake derivatives were easily good for 120c or thereabouts.

Not a great idea mind you, but I've done it stably on my 9900K, you know, before I bought a bigger case and better cooling