Leaked Intel Alder Lake i9 12900K Outperforms Ryzen 5950X by 28%
Intel's latest consumer CPU, Alder Lake, is rumored to surpass the finest AMD Ryzen CPU by 28% more performance score. The Core i9 12900K might get Intel its lost position back among the PC gaming community.
The tweet by @OneRaichu suggests that the i9 12900K scored an 810 on single-thread, and 11600 on multi-threads. These numbers were made possible using water-cooling, without any over-clocking. That said, the results of both, ST and MT are much higher an improvement from its last-gen CPUs.
12900KS QS Non-OC
— Raichu (@OneRaichu) July 20, 2021
In water cooler.
Cinebench R20.
ST: >810
MT: >11600
In his tweet, Raichu wrote "12900KS", but has since corrected that it was a typo, and the actual name is plain 12900K. As for power consumption, it's said to cross 200W in order to reach max turbo frequency.
The 12900K scored 177 points more than the Ryzen 9 5950X, which maxed at 633 points vs the 810 of 12900K. This alone puts Intel much ahead, for now. Looking at the multi-threaded scores, the Ryzen 595X scored 9853, which is 1747 points lower than the suggested multi-threaded score of 11600 points by i9 12900K.
Even though the Ryzen 5950X with its 32 Threads and 16 Zen 3 cores seemingly wins, in comparison with the 24 threads of the Alder Lake i9 12900K, it still outperforms it. This will of course depend on the rest of the system specs on which these two were tested, and the final numbers might vary.
Pricing will also play a huge part here, which we can't confirm just yet. Although we should be seeing other CPUs in the 12th Gen line-up, also expected to perform similarly better than their last-gen counterparts. This will of course be confirmed when Intel officially reveals their Alder Lake line-up and full specs.
The Alder Lake CPUs are expected to launch in Q4 2021 or Q1 2022. During the same time, AMD's Zen 3 CPUs with additional L3 cache could hit the market as well. It's said that their new L3 cache will offer about a 1.15x performance boost to their Zen 3 CPUs, which could provide huge improvement at the same clock speed, or even more efficient power consumption and lower clocks. It will be interesting, as always, for the two giants to once again, go head to head.
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