Intel fans, finally, you have some good news as the flagship processor from the upcoming 12th Gen Alder Lake CPU lineup has beaten the monstrous AMD Ryzen 9 5950X in both single and multi-threaded workloads.
As per the Geekbench leak, the Core i9-12900K features 8 Performance Cores and 8 Efficient Cores has been tested on Windows 11 Pro system. So, this means the CPU has been properly tested with having implemented the Thread Director technology.
It comes with 16 cores and 24 threads as those Efficient Cores do not support hyperthreading. Also, the CPU enjoys the latest DDR5 memory and for this test also, a DDR5 memory likely set to 4800 MT/s was used.
While the processor’s base clock speed was reported as 3.2 GHz, the boost frequency was reported 3 MHz on the result page while 29 GHz on the score’s detailed page, quite strange though. However, if we Core i9-12900K should offer a 5.3 GHz boost clock on the Performance Cores and 3.9 GHz on Efficiency Cores.
This benchmark could indeed be only an Intel’s reference and validation platform for testing, so you cannot judge the final performance of the CPU just yet. So, we see the Intel Core i9-12900K scoring an incredible 1893 points in single-core Geekbench 5 benchmark and 17299 points in multi-core.
These scores trade blows the current fastest desktop CPU in the market i.e. AMD’s Ryzen 9 5950X flagship in both of the tests by 12% and 3% respectively, if we take into account the average scores of the AMD chip. Still Intel managing to beat AMD in multi-threading performance without having 8 threads means a lot, showing how powerful even those efficiency cores are.
If you are someone who has waited for Alder Lake, skipping Rocket Lake, this news might make you very happy as compared to the Core i9-11900K, this processor is faster by 2% and 57% respectively. We expect this performance to improve over time with proper drivers at launch and further optimization, so Intel’s claim of 19% IPC uplift against Rocket Lake remains a fact to be seen.
Source: @TUM_APISAK, @Leakbench and via Videocardz
