[Dismas]

Looks like Intel is coming with the 12900K a bit earlier than expected. Some of the qualification models have apparently hit the Chinese market. Benchmarks show it gives the 5950X a run for its money.

The information was released on Chinese website Zhihu and posted via Videocardz and appears to show specifications based on samples provided to Intel partners recently. The new CPUs, including the Core i9-12900K, Core i7-12700K and Core i5-12600K, all feature Hybrid cores, with smaller more power-efficient cores mixing in with larger more powerful high-frequency ones.

This allows the CPU to maintain high performance in lightly to moderately threaded loads with so called 'big Cores' with 'small cores' handling light tasks to improve power consumption and perhaps even helping out in multi-threaded workloads too.

The Core i9-12900K offers eight of each type of core, bringing its total to 16, which is double the current Core i9-11900K flagship. The Core i7-12700K looks set to have 12 cores in total (compared to just eight with the Core i7-11700K) (in an 8/4 core big/small configuration and finally, the Core i5-12900K appears to have 10 cores (compared to six for the Core i5-11600K) in a 6/4 big/small configuration.

Read More: https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleath...-16-cores/

[Drako]

Well, Intel has to come up with something to compete with AMD. So far they haven't really hit the mark yet. From what I've seen, price-to-performance on Intel's latest chips hasn't been on their side since Ryzen launched.

Only time will tell who stays on top.

[Dismas]

Well, Intel has to come up with something to compete with AMD. So far they haven't really hit the mark yet. From what I've seen, price-to-performance on Intel's latest chips hasn't been on their side since Ryzen launched.

Only time will tell who stays on top.

The 5950X was released last year, so it's not exactly a fair comparison. That said, I can see the tides changing around 2022 depending on how Raptor Lake fares.

[Alex1759]

Even if it will consume as much power as 11900K, the fact that it will win in absolute performance is a big feat.

[mothered]

The 5950X was released last year, so it's not exactly a fair comparison.

Isn't It AMD's latest release?

If so and In my view, Intel has done the right thing by comparing It to the latest availability, regardless of age.

[Dismas]

The 5950X was released last year, so it's not exactly a fair comparison.

Isn't It AMD's latest release?

If so and In my view, Intel has done the right thing by comparing It to the latest availability, regardless of age.

Makes sense. It's the only thing they can compare it to, since they don't follow the same release schedules. Likewise, I'm sure they'll be comparing the upcoming Zen 4s to the 12900K.

[Accident Man]

Inordinately fascinating. I wonder how thread-optimized games will decide which threads to utilize for what. It must be intricate coding games to utilize 8+ cores but having 2 or more of those being lower-performing, more minuscule cores.

[Dismas]

More information coming about these:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/...le-design/

13900K will have 24 cores, with 8 of those being performance cores. Curious if AMD will follow up with a 24 core that uses all performance cores.

[Marshland]

Honestly i really doubt it will give the 5950X a run for its money with only 8 performance cores. Outperforming in single core performance i'll believe

[Dismas]

Honestly i really doubt it will give the 5950X a run for its money with only 8 performance cores. Outperforming in single core performance i'll believe

According to the benchmarks of the 12900KS, it's a 20% improvement on single core and 10% improvement on multi-core. The 13900K will likely perform even better.

It does show Intel is at least trying, but it's been over a year since the 5950X dropped. No doubt AMD will have a response.