Wednesday, October 27th 2021
Final Intel 12th Gen Core CPU Spec and Pricing Leak Hours Before Official Reveal
For those tired of Intel leaks, please look away now, as this is likely to be one of the last leaks before the official reveal later today. The final specifications, as well as pricing for the first six of Intel's 12th Gen Core CPUs has made an appearance online and the good news is that the official pricing isn't as bad as we've been led to believe, based on earlier leaks and it'll at least make up some of the cost increase of the Z690 motherboards over the Z590 models.
Spec wise, we're not looking at anything unexpected here, it simply verifies what has leaked so far, with one exception, maximum turbo power. Although the base TDP of all six CPUs is 125 W, it seems like Intel is using the maximum turbo power as yet another product differentiator, at least more so than it has previously. The Core i9 CPUs get a maximum turbo power of 241 W, whereas the Core i7's top out at 190 W and the Core i5's at 150 W. At least Intel is being open about it and the question is if it will have any affect on overclocking or not. Obviously having fewer CPUs cores would result in a lower power draw overall, but then the question is why the Core i5's have a base TDP of 125 W.
Price wise, the new Core i9-12900K has a 1K list price of US$589, some $80 cheaper than the leaked pricing from Micro Center, but still about $40-50 more expensive than the 11th Gen Core i9-11900K. The KF SKU is $15 cheaper at US$564, which is a smaller margin than between the 11th Gen K and KF SKUs. Moving down a step to the Core i7 CPUs, the 12700K is listed at US$409, with the KF SKU coming in at US$384, which is in line with the 11th Gen Core i7 parts. Finally the Core i5-12600K is listed at US$289, with the KF SKU at US$264, which is about $15-25 higher than the 11th Gen Core i5 equivalents.
Overall it seems like fair pricing, if Intel delivers in terms of performance and based on some Intel game benchmarks, it looks like the 11th Gen CPUs are going to be outperformed quite easily, whereas it looks like AMD might still hold its own in some titles. We'll have to wait for official reviews next week before we can say if this will hold true or not.
Source:
Videocardz
Spec wise, we're not looking at anything unexpected here, it simply verifies what has leaked so far, with one exception, maximum turbo power. Although the base TDP of all six CPUs is 125 W, it seems like Intel is using the maximum turbo power as yet another product differentiator, at least more so than it has previously. The Core i9 CPUs get a maximum turbo power of 241 W, whereas the Core i7's top out at 190 W and the Core i5's at 150 W. At least Intel is being open about it and the question is if it will have any affect on overclocking or not. Obviously having fewer CPUs cores would result in a lower power draw overall, but then the question is why the Core i5's have a base TDP of 125 W.
56 Comments on Final Intel 12th Gen Core CPU Spec and Pricing Leak Hours Before Official Reveal
Also, I can guarantee you that Zen 3 with stacked SRAM will be faster than Alder Lake running old DDR4; and if you really look at the price premium of buying new DDr5 (more expensive motherboards, plus more expensive modules, plus cant reuse your existing sticks), it's going to be a huge cost hit for 10% better performance!
Like the RCP of the 11900k is $539.00 - $549.00and that's also the price you can buy it for. This has been the case for as long as I know for Intel CPUs.
Some "Leaks" suggest the mounting pressure requirement is doubled for LGA1700
Old heatsinks with a LGA1700 adaptor isn't going to do it.
Hence lead to high temps.
11900K's official MSRP/list price is $609 compared to the $539 x1000 price on Intel ARK - so 13% higher which is within the 10-20% I stated earler.
Camelcamelcamel or other price-history trackers will prove to you that it did initially sell for the MSRP, with pricing brought into line rapidly by market supply/demand within a few months.
Alder Lake will eventually sell for whatever the market will bear. I'm not going to try and predict the future as I have no more information than you do. If GPUs have told us anything recently, it's that MSRP's are kind of pointless when there's more supply than demand, and whether Alder Lake is desirable enough to whip up high demand depends on the cost of the whole ecosystem (CPU, board, RAM, and cooler if it's a hungry beast - and of course independent reviews).
AAA titles with utlra settings? No - because as fast as the 3080Ti is, it's still going to be the bottleneck at 4K.
Maybe stick to Comet Lake and wait for Meteor Lake.
Early adopter tax is really heavy for this generation.
www.pccasegear.com/category/187_2180/cpus/intel-1700-12th-gen
only credible testing by non-schills will convince me.
Local micro center finally lists 12 series chips
Shows them as 16 core 649.99 with an already 20.us discount.
Looks like they might have reserve on it to instead of instore only.