Something to look forward to: As nosotros get closer to the release of the first processors in the Intel Alder Lake family, more than criterion results are starting to surface online. The latest 1 shows Intel might finally have a true flagship CPU on its hands that tin compete with AMD'south Ryzen 5950X.

Intel's Alder Lake processor family is poised to exist a much more exciting release than Rocket Lake, which was only an incremental upgrade over Ice Lake that brought small-scale functioning improvements due to beingness backported from an unstable 10nm process node to the more mature 14nm 1 that Intel has been using for a while now.

By contrast, Alder Lake is a unlike concept that draws from Arm'southward big.LITTLE designs, with efficiency cores and functioning cores that are governed by a Thread Director. On a PC running Windows 11, this new thread scheduler volition assign lower-priority tasks to the efficiency cores and higher priority tasks to the more than powerful ones, which will make your system feel more than responsive. In a sense, it'southward non that different to what Apple has done with the M1 SoC on macOS.

Every bit for how well it performs in general tasks, Intel has only permit out that we can wait a 19 percent increment, on average, when comparing the high operation Gilt Cove cores on Alder Lake against Rocket Lake'south Cypress Cove cores. And thanks to benchmark results spotted by Videocardz on Geekbench, we tin get a crude thought of how information technology may practise confronting AMD's Zen 3 offerings, besides.

The processor sighted in the new leak seems to be none other than Intel'due south upcoming Core i9-12900K, which evidently was able to record a single-core result of ane,893 in Geekbench 5, or two percent faster when compared to the Core i9-11900K and 12 percent faster than AMD's Ryzen 9 5950X.

In the multi-core test, the Core i9-12900K sample obtained 17299 points, which is a whopping 57 per centum increase over the Rocket Lake flagship. However, this result is merely marginally improve (3.five percentage) than AMD's Ryzen 9 5950X. Overall, it looks like Intel's adjacent flagship desktop CPU might turn out improve than expected.

As ever, take these early results with the proverbial grain of table salt. That said, nosotros're getting closer to the release of the starting time batch of Alder Lake CPUs, which volition exist comprised entirely of enthusiast-form models. This lends some credibility to these results equally opposed to annihilation regarding mainstream and lower-terminate members of the Alder Lake family.