The Intel Core i9-12900KS Review: The Best of Intel's Alder Lake, and the Hottest
by Gavin Bonshor on July 29, 2022 8:00 AM ESTCPU Benchmark Performance: Legacy and Web
In order to gather data to compare with older benchmarks, we are still keeping a number of tests under our ‘legacy’ section. This includes all the former major versions of CineBench (R15, R11.5, R10) as well as x264 HD 3.0 and the first very naïve version of 3DPM v2.1. We won’t be transferring the data over from the old testing into Bench, otherwise, it would be populated with 200 CPUs with only one data point, so it will fill up as we test more CPUs like the others.
The other section here is our web tests.
We are using DDR5 memory at the following settings:
- DDR5-4800(B) CL40
Legacy
Focusing on our older Legacy benchmarks, the Core i9-12900KS is consistently the best performer of all of the processors on test. The additional frequency bumps to both the Performance (P) and Efficiency (E) cores make it slightly better than the Core i9-12900K.
Web
Looking at the performance in our web-based tests, the Core i9-12900KS again beats the competition pretty comprehensively, including the Core i9-12900K, the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, and the Ryzen 7 5800X3D.
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Dante Verizon - Sunday, July 31, 2022 - link
Honestly, iGPU performance seems abnormal.. What's going ontygrus - Sunday, July 31, 2022 - link
What's the avg power or task energy while doing different workloads? eg. Browser/office apps, video playback, video encoding/Transcoding, MT technical.MDD1963 - Monday, August 1, 2022 - link
AT is really on top of reviewing the fastest CPUs within less than 4-5 months of their releases...!!! :/MDD1963 - Monday, August 1, 2022 - link
Doing CPU comparisons with only a 2080Ti is bogus.....(good on ya'll for not using a GTX1060, however!)Alistair - Monday, August 1, 2022 - link
it's fine, just use 720p instead of 1080p, you'll get higher FPS with a 2080 Ti at 720p than a 3090 Ti at 1080pgallon6341 - Saturday, September 17, 2022 - link
In this gen I am very impressed with the i5 12400f.