Alleged performance benchmarks of Intel's Core i9-12900K Alder Lake flagship CPU have leaked out and it looks like AMD's Ryzen 5000 chips are in for a massive beating. Benchmarks shared by OneRaichu show how well the CPU performs in the Cinebench R20 test making it easy for us to do a comparison between existing Intel and AMD CPUs.

Intel Core i9-12900K 16 Core Alder Lake CPU Benchmarks Leaked, Allegedly Knocks Out AMD's Fastest Ryzen 5000 'Vermeer' Chip

The Intel Core i9-12900K that was tested is allegedly a QS 'Qualifaction Sample' chip and hence, the performance stated here may not be final as there are certain firmware updates along with the OS-specific optimizations needed to get the full potential out of the Alder Lake's hybrid architecture. It looks like the performance was measured on a very early test setup which featured a liquid cooler though other specifications such as memory and motherboard haven't been mentioned. It is likely that this chip is part of the recent inventory that was sold in the back-channel market as reported here.

Core i9-12900K 16 Core / 24 Thread Desktop CPU Specifications

The Intel Core i9-12900K will be the flagship chip in the 12th Gen Alder Lake Desktop CPU lineup. It will feature 8 Golden Cove cores and 8 Gracemont cores for a total of 16 cores (8+8) and 24 threads (16+8). The P-cores (Golden Cove) will operate at a maximum boost frequency of up to 5.3 GHz with 1-2 active cores and 5.0 GHz with all-cores active while the E-cores (Gracemont) will operate at 3.90 GHz across 1-4 cores and up to 3.7 GHz when all cores are loaded. The CPU will feature 30 MB of L3 cache and TDP values are maintained at 125W (PL1) and 228W (PL2).

Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake Desktop CPU Specs