Friday, March 25th 2022
Intel Core i9-12900KS Starts Selling on Newegg for $799
Intel started selling its new flagship desktop processor, the special edition Core i9-12900KS, on Newegg for USD $799. Based on the highest bins of the "Alder Lake-S" C0 silicon, the chip has the same configuration as the i9-12900K, with 8 P-cores, 8 E-cores, and 30 MB of L3 cache; but higher clock speeds. The chip offers maximum Turbo Boost frequencies of 5.50 GHz on the P-cores, compared to 5.20 GHz for the regular i9-12900K. The Newegg listing mentions the i9-12900KS to have the same power limits as the i9-12900K, with 125 W processor base power (PBP) and 241 W maximum turbo power (MTP), and not the previously reported 150 W PBP with 260 W MTP.
Update 20:50 UTC: And the listing on Newegg has vanished, which probably has to do with Intel's embargo ending only next week. Sales are supposedly starting not before April.
Sources:
Newegg, momomo_us (Twitter)
Update 20:50 UTC: And the listing on Newegg has vanished, which probably has to do with Intel's embargo ending only next week. Sales are supposedly starting not before April.
69 Comments on Intel Core i9-12900KS Starts Selling on Newegg for $799
This cpu + Arctic 420mm AIO would be a pretty fun combo if you had money to blow. lol
Will be interesting to see just how much more performance can be extracted from these compared to the regular one.
Sure, Alder Lake is fast - it clocks high and it has great IPC, but since Pentium 4 nobody ever trusts Intel when they say "fastest" ever again because there are so many caveats.
For a start, will it beat a 64C/128T Threadripper Pro in Cinebench R23, and that's where the definition of "fastest" becomes important. The 4.5GHz 5800X3D is supposedly going to be 20% faster than the 12900K in select games. So there we have it, it won't be the fastest for productivity and it won't be the fastest for gaming. It'll be the fastest at some things, but that's what's so dumb about those claims. Fastest in Photoshop? Fastest in single-threaded synthetic benchmarks?
I really like Alder Lake but I wish Intel would focus on its strengths (the Heterogeneous architecture) and not just crank stupid voltages through Golden Cove cores for the sake of dumb marketing stunts. The future is in lower-power devices (Laptops are still outselling desktops 5-to-1, and phones are outselling laptops by similar margins) so we don't want 241W chips that fall off the efficiency cliff for that last 2%. How about a 6P+32E core solution that runs in the same power envelope as an M1 Ultra?
I must have missed the newegg thing
Was it the bundling with exploding gigabyte psu's thing ?
Bottom line this is just a pushed early drop before amd 5800x3d release so price doesn't look anymore silly than it already does at 800.us typical intel lol
Also, my previous statement applies too. Either you do your research and buy something that fits your needs within your budget (whether that budget is a bunch of coins and gum in your pocket or a number followed by ten zeroes isn't important), or you don't do your research and buy whatever.
The 3d cache is for games mostly. with your 5900x i dont think it will be much of an improvement across the board. I'd stick to 5900X if i were you. Got a 5800X and I'm not sure if I will jump on the 3dcache wagon. I need to see some benchmarks, price and maybe heat output. It's a new stuff you never know.
Intel always trolls amd with best gaming performance so amd doing it and if true it will be sweet :laugh:
Don't know if it's AGESA or something else. I'm going to try it in another board to see if it's a MB issue. :(
I might have been interested in the 12900ks if it had been in the $650-700 range. I have a spare z690 that I'll lose money on if I try to sell it, so it would have been fun to play with. $800 is too rich for me.
That's just my experience though and I am sure others have had terrible problems. The issue is there are few places to go that have the amount SKUs that Newegg does.
Kind of funny
AMD people posting on a intel thread and intel people posting on amd thread :laugh:
If you're talking about me, I'm neither. (what's and amd person or an intel person anyway?). I have a 12700k and a 5950x sitting right next to each other.