Little by little, we must prepare ourselves to begin the countdown to the introduction of Intel’s twelfth generation processors. The fall of 2021 will most likely be the time for Intel to unveil its Alder Lake processor. You can read the other articles on the itmagazine to learn about the latest news and also to view other related articles.
The blue giant has returned to the field with a new architecture to defeat the ZEN architecture of the red team. AMD takes advantage of the advanced technology of Ryzen processors, while Intel lags behind its competitor in this respect (12nm vs. 10nm). However, this does not mean that AMD representatives are superior to Intel chips.
According to the Geek Bench benchmark released in the past, we saw the superiority of Intel’s next-generation flagship over the flagship of the 5,000 red team advisor. Now, once again, the Core i9-12900K is up against the Ryzen 9 5950X to witness the heavy defeat of AMD’s flagship again. In this article, we review the Core i9-12900K versus the Ryzen 9 5950X.
Core i9-12900K vs. Ryzen 9 5950X
Intel’s flagship Alder Lake family outperforms AMD’s flagship Ryzen 9 5950X in the Ashes of the Singularity benchmark this time around in the Ashes of the Singularity benchmark. Based on the information already obtained, the Core i9-12900K processor is equipped with a total of 16 processing cores. The eight powerful Golden Cove cores are located next to the eight less energy-intensive and naturally weaker Gracemont cores. The base frequency of the processing cores in this CPU is equal to 3.2 GHz, which increases to 5.2 GHz in boost mode. The 125 watt Intel chip also has 30 MB of L3 cache.
In contrast, the Ryzen 9 5950X, as the flagship of the red team, has 16 processing cores with ZEN 3 architecture and also uses the SMT (multi-threaded simultaneous processing) technique.
The base frequency of this processor is 3.4 GHz and its boost frequency is 4.9 GHz. AMD’s flagship thermal design power is 105 watts thanks to the more advanced manufacturing process, and the amount of L3 cache is 64 MB. Clearly on paper, it is superior to the AMD flagship. Especially since all 16 processing cores of this CPU are of ZEN 3 type, while Intel Core i9-12900K has only 8 Golden Cove cores.
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Almost 40% superior to Intel’s flagship over AMD’s flagship
In practice, however, the situation is quite different. Intel’s flagship is featured in the Ashes of the Singularity benchmark database. Unfortunately, this benchmark does not provide complete information about the test system, so we can not say whether the Core i9-12900K processor or GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card was overclocked in this test. It is also not clear if the operating system used was Windows 11 or older versions.
This is especially important given that next-generation Windows is optimized for Alder Lake processors. Therefore, these privileges should not be relied on completely.
Let’s go to the registered points. Where the Core i9-12900K with Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card managed to record 14000 points in 1440p resolution. On the other hand, Ryzen 9 5950X from AMD with the same graphics card and the same resolution is enough to record 10100 points.
However, Intel’s flagship performance was almost 38.6% better than its AMD counterpart. It should be noted that both systems tested were equipped with benchmark tools version 3.10.191346.0, so if we factor in the problem of overclocking components that we do not know exist, the conditions are the same for both processors. Of course, here we have considered the same model of GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card, otherwise the benchmark scores can be less or higher than the registered values.
It is too early to announce the winner
Although here we have the undisputed superiority of the Core i9-12900K over the Ryzen 9 5950X, it should be noted that Ashes of the Singularity is merely a benchmark tool and it is still too early to announce the winner of the Intel and AMD flagship competition.
AMD’s flagship is now arguably the best gaming processor on the market, and we’re excited to see if Intel’s flagship Alder Lake can take the crown back.
Of course, the importance of processors in heavy processing of various software should not be overlooked. This is a very important topic for many users. In any case, Intel will probably officially introduce its twelfth-generation processors at the Intel Innovation event on October 27-28, and then we can compare them more closely with AMD representatives.
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