information launched its first six Alder Lake-S processors on Wednesday night. The SKUs that form the initial roster of 12th Gen Intel Core processors are detailed in the table below. In short, these are Intel Core i9-12900K/KF, Intel Core i7-12700K/KF and Intel Core i5-12600K/KF. By suffixes, seasoned bit technologists will know that these are all unlocked enthusiast processors, and the “KF” chips sold with iGPUs have been processed without communication with the outside world.

The highlights of the launch of the first Intel 7 product were mostly what we were missing after Intel Architecture Day in August: specific SKU release information, a small amount of testing, and some input from Intel partners regarding the first 600 series. motherboards and DDR5 RAM kits. We have all of that now, but Intel is not allowing third-party reviews to be posted until CPUs and PCs go public starting November 4th.

Above you can see all the new SKUs. You can see a combination of P and E cores, base and turbo frequencies, as well as caches and so on. Important new data in this table includes base processor power and maximum power in Turbo mode. You can disregard the lower power as all enthusiast motherboards will run the new processors with a higher power limit shown to maximize their potential.

Considering that the top-end Intel Core i9-12900K processor unleashes the potential of these 12th generation Core processors, Intel claims that this chip is “the best gaming processor in the world.” It has 16 cores and 24 threads and runs at up to 5.2GHz, but in your high end cooler it will draw over 240W under heavy loads.

At last night’s event, Intel showed some results from its own benchmarks, demonstrating a “gaming lead”. You can see the chart he shared right above that suggests the Intel i9-12900K is about 12 percent faster than the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X in modern PC gaming. Unfortunately, it appears that Intel systems running Windows 11 have not been updated with AMD/Microsoft patches in order for AMD L3 caching and “preferred kernel technology” to work properly. Be aware that these issues can slow down the game on AMD platforms by as much as 15%.

Intel has been better at claiming achievements in content creation than its own previous-generation flagship processors. In these CPU-intensive cases, 12th Gen processors were at least a third faster than their 11th Gen ancestors. Of course, more cores and creative multi-core applications have played an important role in these rises.

For your interest, I have embedded a comparison shot of the Intel i9-12900K die below as shared by Der8auer. You can also check out some fancy plates and pictures courtesy of HardwareLuxx editor Andreas Schilling. on twitter.

The flagship Core i9-12900K is rumored to be $590, the Core i7-12700K is $410 and the Core i5-12600K is $290.

Along with the new processors, Intel has introduced brand new 600 series chipsets. In terms of enthusiast-level desktop processors, partners such as Asus, Gigabyte and MSI have successfully released motherboards based on the Z690 chipset. The new motherboards provide advanced and modern I/O technologies such as PCIe 5.0, DDR5 (typically), fast integrated wired and wireless networks and more as standard.

Many new motherboards have been discovered, for example, only Asus has nineteen Z690 models out-of-the-box, covering all kinds of features and sizes (E-ATX, ATX, mATX and mini-ITX). Similar aorAnd G.Skill are also showing off their new DDR5 memory modules.

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