Testseek.co.uk have collected 214 expert reviews of the Intel Core i9 12900K 3.2GHz Socket 1700 and the average rating is 88%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel Core i9 12900K 3.2GHz Socket 1700.
November 2021
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214 Reviews
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The editors liked
Superior to AMD's 5950X in most benchmarks
Improved gaming performance
Superb single/multi-core performance
Both CPUs offer integrated graphics
12900K marginally cheaper than 5950X
Incredible productivity performance
Incredible performance
Power efficient
Supports all the latest tech
Great for gaming
Storming gaming performance
Good productivity performance that is close to Ryzen 9 5950X
Intel has finally moved on from its 14nm process
Intel's Performance Hybrid architecture is a major change of direction
Support for PCI Express Gen 5
The editors didn't like
Extremely power hungry
Costly to upgrade to
Problems with gaming performance
Requires other hardware upgrades
Will have to buy all new hardware
Power draw is high and efficiency is unimpressive
DDR5 is brand new and will take time to improve
High cost for the new platform
Windows 10 performance is unpredictable. Best to use Windows 11
There is minimal potential for overclocking with conventio
Abstract: Intel's 12th Gen "Alder Lake" processors are a well-rounded new desktop processor lineup that impressed us in many ways with the quirky but powerful heterogenous multi-core technology and next-generation I/O, such as DDR5 memory and PCI-Express Gen 5. In...
Abstract: Core i9 12900K (DDR4 3600 CL16) vs. (DDR5 5200 C40) perf review 8x BIG and 8x Little and then a memory choiceIt was only recently that Intel debuted an Alder Lake-based CPU, the Core i9 12900K, and the platform is prepared for the future with its tremendo...
Even back in our original preview and review for the Intel Core i9-12900K, we commented that the Efficient "Gracemont" cores are a wonderful piece of semiconductor engineering, and through the course of this review, our appreciation for this core archite...
Intel Core "Alder Lake" is a very interesting processor architecture, and given Arm SoCs have had Hybrid architectures for over eight years now, the latest Intel chips can only be considered a step in the right direction. While there's people claiming th...
Abstract: The much talked about Intel 12th Gen Core "Alder Lake" processors made landfall last week and are shaking things up in the processor world right now. Be sure to catch our comprehensive reviews of the three (12900K, 12700K, 12600K). Alder Lake is the firs...
Published: 2021-11-08, Author: Home , review by: lanoc.org
With all of the testing out of the way, we can finally sit back and look a little more at the overall picture with both the i9-12900K and the i5-12600K. I mentioned it earlier but Adler Lake or what is now officially the 12th Gen Core CPUs was a huge...
Published: 2021-11-07, Author: Michael , review by: phoronix.com
Abstract: While it was initially communicated by Intel that Alder Lake's Golden Cove P-Cores has AVX-512 "fused off", that has turned out not to be the case at least with the initial batch of processors and current BIOS/firmware configurations. If disabling the pow...
Published: 2021-11-04, Author: Michael , review by: phoronix.com
Across a variety of native Linux games and Steam Play titles benchmarked, AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors were delivering faster performance than the Alder Lake CPUs tested.When taking the geometric mean of all the games benchmarked, the Ryzen 9 5900X wa...
Abstract: Without further delay, we can finally introduce Intel's newest process node, Intel 7, for mainstream consumers. Intel has had a rocky road transitioning from their 14 nm process and is introducing a CPU with significant changes. The Intel i9-12900K and i5...
Published: 2021-11-04, Author: Tom , review by: overclock3d.net
We think it's fair to say that the 11th Generation of Intel CPUs was a bit of an aberration in their history. When you think back to famous processors in the past they are, almost without exception, Intel models. The 486, E8400, i7-920, Core i5-2500K, Cor...
