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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/