News Intel Core i9-12900K vs Ryzen 9 5900X and 5950X: Alder Lake and Ryzen 5000 Face Off

[PapaCrazy]

Most review sites didn't get a 12700k review sample. With 12600 and 12900 results in hand, you know the 12700 is going to be somewhere in the middle. The 12900k only exists so Intel can say they have something faster than a 5950x. The 12700k makes more sense for the overwhelming amount of people looking for elite level performance. In the real world, the 4 extra E-cores aren't going to make much of difference pretty much all the time. Use the money saved going with the 12700k and put it towards DDR5 or a better motherboard. From a value perspective, the 12600k is the clear winner. The 12600k is currently in stock at Best Buy right now for $299, which is only $10 above the 1000 unit price. That's pretty remarkable for any PC component released just a few days ago based on the last year+ of releases, despite what the AMD fan club above are trying to argue.

Hardware Unboxed tested the 12700kf against the 12900k, but they didn't get a 12600. I haven't found a single site that was given all 3 chips, which makes apples to apples comparison difficult for now. That said, HUB had a very positive review of the 12700k. It surpassed the 5900x in production workloads and rendering, particularly in Premiere (strangely even beating the 12900k) which I found very compelling. All three of the new chips appear to perform quite similarly in gaming, which I agree makes the 12600k an excellent value for a pure gaming build. For anyone that does light production loads, the 12700k is a great all-arounder and hits the sweet spot for value. Power usage/temps are also improved over 12900k, hitting a max in the 70s while the 12900k reached into 90s.

 

[msroadkill612]

ADL is 8-10% faster than Zen3 in games, 20% in ST and is trading blows with Zen3 in MT - while consuming 50% more power per worktime than AMD.

Well, delivering that kind of performance and efficiency more than 1 year after release of Zen3 is not exactly a sweeping victory for Intel.
Perfirmance wise, Zen3 refresh with 3D L3 cash will probably close the gap in gaming, narrow Intel's lead in ST performance and get the crown back in MT, while still being 50% more efficient than Intel.

That being said, Intel has recently announced an extremely aggressive agenda with regards to shrinking process nodes up to 3 nm and below within the next couple of years.
Zen 4 has thus to be made in a refined 5nm process node and it will have to bring some major architectural advances beyond L3 cash in order to stay competitive with Intel.

Great times, for sure.

Good input but ...
Even w/o getting into which market makes more money, servers are the specie's breeding grounds, & w/o them, they die.

None of this is an antidote to team epyc