Alder Lake is approximately only a month away before its rumoured launch and according to fresh sources, the latest Intel Core i9-12900K Alder Lake flagship CPU benchmarks have leaked out and the QS chips show that it has a much faster single-threaded performance than the company’s Rocket Lake while. In the benchmark, we could also see that the multi-core performance of the chip is on par with AMD’s flagship Ryzen 5000 CPUs.
We have already seen several benchmarks of the Intel Core i9-12900K Alder Lake CPU, but this will be the first time that we are getting results from a QS chip that significantly offers better performance & overall stability. The tests were carried out on a B660 motherboard along with DDR4-3600 memory in Gear 1 mode.
Let’s jump straight to the benchmarks, we first have the CPU-z results where the Intel Core i9-12900K is 20% faster in single-threaded and is almost on par with the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X. In the Cinebench R20 score, Intel’s offering once again displays a 20% performance boost in a single-threaded and displays similar performance in the multi-threaded benchmarks.
This is considered a very good showcase of the performance which Intel’s Alder Lake CPUs have to offer. This is especially in the single-threaded department, but the only part worrying here is the high temperatures and power numbers. The Intel Core i9-12900K is expected to hit retail at around $550 US making it $250 US cheaper than the MSRP of the Ryzen 9 5950X & the same MSRP of the Ryzen 9 5900X.
Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake Desktop CPU Specs “Rumored”
| CPU Name | P-Core Count | E-Core Count | Total Core / Thread | P-Core Base / Boost (Max) | P-Core Boost (All-Core) | E-Core Base / Boost | E-Core Boost (All-Core) | Cache | TDP (PL1) | TDP (PL2) | Expected (MSRP) Price |
| Core i9-12900K | 8 | 8 | 16 / 24 | 3.2 / 5.3 GHz | 5.0 GHz (All Core) | TBA / 3.9 GHz | 3.7 GHz (All Core) | 30 MB | 125W | 228W | $599 US |
| Core i9-12900 | 8 | 8 | 16 / 24 | 3.2 / 5.2 GHz | 4.9 GHz (All Core) | TBA | TBA | 30 MB | 65W | ~200W | $509 US |
| Core i9-12900T | 8 | 8 | 16 / 24 | TBA / 4.9 GHz | TBA | TBA | TBA | 30 MB | 35W | TBA | TBA |
| Core i7-12700K | 8 | 4 | 12 / 20 | 3.6 / 5.0 GHz | 4.7 GHz (All Core) | TBA / 3.8 GHz | 3.6 GHz (All Core) | 25 MB | 125W | 228W | $429 US |
| Core i7-12700 | 8 | 4 | 12 / 20 | 3.6 / 4.9 GHz | 4.6 GHz (All Core) | TBA | TBA | 25 MB | 65W | ~200W | $359 US |
| Core i7-12700T | 8 | 4 | 12 / 20 | TBA / 4.7 GHz | TBA | TBA | TBA | 25 MB | 35W | TBA | TBA |
| Core i5-12600K | 6 | 4 | 10 / 16 | 3.7 / 4.9 GHz | 4.5 GHz (All Core) | TBA / 3.6 GHz | 3.4 GHz (All Core) | 20 MB | 125W | 228W | $279 US |
| Core i5-12600 | 6 | 0 | 6 / 12 | 3.7 / 4.8 GHz | 4.4GHz (All Core) | TBA | TBA | 18 MB | 65W | ~200W | $249 US |
| Core i5-12600T | 6 | 0 | 6 / 12 | TBA / 4.6 GHz | TBA | TBA | TBA | 18 MB | 35W | TBA | TBA |
| Core i5-12500T | 6 | 0 | 6 / 12 | TBA / 4.4 GHz | TBA | TBA | TBA | 18 MB | 35W | TBA | TBA |
| Core i5-12400 | 6 | 0 | 6 / 12 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | 18 MB | 65W | ~200W | $203 US |
| Core i5-12400T | 6 | 0 | 6 / 12 | TBA / 4.2 GHz | TBA | TBA | TBA | 18 MB | 35W | TBA | TBA |
| Core i3-12200T | 4 | 0 | 4 / 8 | TBA / 4.2 GHz | TBA | TBA | TBA | 12 MB | 35W | TBA | TBA |
| Core i3-12100T | 4 | 0 | 4 / 8 | TBA / 4.1 GHz | TBA | TBA | TBA | 12 MB | 35W | TBA | TBA |
