In a recent leak, we have witnessed the appearance of the latest high-resolution pictures of the Intel Core i9-12900K Alder Lake flagship CPU have been leaked by Yuuki_AnS. As we know, recently Chinese merchants were selling the engineering samples of the CPUs in their market and the leaker has managed to obtain the latest engineering sample of the chip for a starting price of $700 US.
The leaked pictures provide a detailed glimpse of the Intel Core i9-12900K CPU which is the flagship within the Alder Lake 12th Gen Core lineup and we also get to see the CPUs 1700 contact pads which will make it compatible with LGA 1700 motherboards.
Apart from the leaked images of the CPU a new slide for the Intel Alder Lake CPUs where the company outlined its brand new HGS+ (Hardware Guided Scheduling+) feature has also been leaked online. In the slide, intel stated that its new core architecture with HGS+ prioritizes and manages the distribution of workloads, which makes it possible to send the sending tasks to the best thread for the job. This in turn optimizes performance per watt.
Intel has also reportedly enabled this feature by default only on select SKUs and no user action is required to activate this technology. The HGS+ feature is a combination of hardware support in the processor and software optimizations in the latest Windows (11) operating system.
The company is yet to announce whether the new HGS+ scheduler only works on Intel Alder Lake 12th Gen CPUs with hybrid core technology. For all we know, the Alder Lake lineup only features Golden Cove cores so there won’t be that much of a use for HGS+ on those chips.
For more information stay tuned.
