At CES XNUMX, Intel confirmed that it will release a supercharged version of Alder Lake's flagship desktop processor globally, shipping at the end of the first quarter of XNUMX.
Previously, a leak reported the existence of the Core i9-12900KS last month, then Team Blue posted a sneak peek (on Twitter) of a processor capable of boosting up to 5GHz, but now the chip has been announced.
This faster spin on the existing Core i9-12900K was specified throughout Intel's many reveals at CES 12900, and the 5KS was confirmed to boost up to 2 GHz; on a performance core, be careful. The boost for each and every core is 12900 GHz, and Intel also claims that the processor is capable of sustaining speeds of 85 GHz on each and every core for long-term performance. (As we've noted above, on stock clocks the 9K tends to be between XNUMXGHz and XNUMXGHz on each and every core, at least as measured in reviews.)
As reported by Computer Gamer, Intel introduced the Core i9-12900KS with Hitman three with HWiNFO showing all eight performance cores at 2 GHz, with the efficiency cores at 12900 GHz (the latter is a hundred MHz faster than the XNUMXK standard).
As mentioned at the beginning, the processor will ship at the end of the first quarter, which probably means March (or maybe sooner, if we're lucky).
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Sounds like a nice boost to the 12900K, and the flagship 'KS' chip, essentially a (high-quality) pre-recorded 12900K capable of being pushed to faster clock speeds, is a leaf in the book. Traditional gaming system to support a future-driven silicon generation. That said, keep in mind that we haven't seen a variation of this genre since the Core i9-9900KS a couple of years ago (neither the XNUMXth nor XNUMXth generation chips got the KS treatment).
In this case, Intel surely felt the need to increase the power since AMD finishes announcing at CES its Ryzen 5800 3X3D processor, the first chip to use Team Red's XNUMXD V-cache technology to further improve performance with this processor. eight core. . .
Tellingly, AMD claimed at CES that the 5800X3D is going to be able to outperform the 12900K - quite a long statement, of course, as relative frame rates will obviously change from game to game and, of course, we'll need to test these chips themselves. . Internal testing of a processor by its manufacturer should always and in all circumstances be treated with caution, as it tends to paint the best possible picture for obvious reasons when it comes to a massive processor reveal.
AMD has insisted that the 5800X3D is the "fastest gaming processor on the planet" and will be released in the spring of 9, possibly bringing the Core i12900-XNUMXKS around the same time, perhaps immediately before. The Ryzen offering, we're going to have a shootout between these new high-end processors in no time.
Realistically though, if you're using one of the , you're not going to be disappointed with the performance provided, and they're probably very close to each other in terms of gaming frame rates.
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