Intel Core i9-12900K “Alder Lake-S” CPU Beats AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and Threadripper 2990WX in New Benchmarks

[Tsing]

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More and more benchmarks that paint Intel’s upcoming “Alder-Lake-S” flagship processor in a positive light continue to hit the web. The latest comes from REHWK, who shared Cinebench numbers that suggest the Core i9-12900K will rank higher than AMD’s Ryzen 9 5950X in multi-core performance. The benchmarks also suggest that Intel’s new flagship will be faster than a Ryzen Threadripper 2990X, which might be genuinely amusing if it weren’t for the fact that this SKU came out years ago. That said, red team’s chip is a relatively monstrous part with 32 cores—exactly twice the amount of cores that Intel’s latest flagship has to work with.



Per a report from Wccftech:



[…] the Intel Core i9-12900K CPU was tested within Cinebench R23 and scored an insane 30,549 points. Not only does this make the Alder Lake CPU the first mainstream chip to break the...

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[Grimlakin]

And I lost interest with these 5 words.

"Per a report from Wccftech"

Sorry to bag on them so much but... ugh.