According to the information, Intel’s 12th-generation Core Alder Lake-S desktop processor was officially released. This series of products are designed with large and small cores, and are the first to support DDR5 memory, PCIe 5.0 channels, and are manufactured using Intel 7-node technology with a 10nm process. Foreign media Toms Hardware got the flagship model Core i9-12900K.
This processor has 8 high-performance P large cores + 8 performance E small cores, and the default turbo frequency can reach 5.2GHz and 3.9GHz respectively. After using liquid nitrogen to cool the overclocking, the main frequency of the large and small cores reached 6.8GHz and 5.3GHz respectively.
This motherboard only provides two DIMM memory slots, the purpose is to improve memory overclocking potential. It is worth noting that the overclocker Splave also overclocked the DDR5 memory to 6200MHz by the way, and the timing is as low as CL34.
Splave used the overclocked i9-12900K CPU to conduct a Geekbench 4/5 benchmark test, breaking the world record for a 16-core processor. After overclocking this CPU, the single-core score is as high as 2740 points, and the multi-core score is 26649 points. In addition, in Intel XTU 2.0 software, the score reached 12765 points. This player said that when performing XTU 2.0 running points, the processor’s large core frequency must be reduced to 6.7GHz, otherwise it is unstable and the test cannot be completed.
