digital trends Leak: Intel i9-12900K can outperform 5950X

[UltraMega]

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Although we don’t have any firm benchmarks, the user was able to calculate a performance estimate based on the speed of the processor and earlier engineering samples. According to the post, the i9-12900K should hit a multi-core score of around 11,300 in Cinebench R20, which is around 900 points higher than the Ryzen 9 5950X.

Intel Core i9-12900K Could Outperform the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X | Digital Trends

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Someone with access to a Core i9-12900K says it can hit 5.3GHz, which could mean the processor will outperform AMD's Ryzen 9 5950X.

IIEC this is a DDR5 platform and it's only slightly ahead of AMD it seems. I don't think AMD will be worried. 

Edited July 15, 2021 by UltraMega

[mouacyk]

The problem with extrapolating theoretical performance is that it excludes practical system bottlenecks, like the initial slow DDR5 performance that we'll get.  That and other issues inherent in new platforms.