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This morning a few hours ahead of the embargo lift for Intel Alder Lake reviews, Gigabyte Aorus published an impressive seeming overclocking result, claiming to have reached 8GHz on the Core i9-12900K. The embargo for Alder Lake has since lifted, allowing more people to talk freely about performance and it has quickly become clear that this 8GHz result was faked. 

Intel 12th Gen is here and Leo is checking out the big boy - the i9-12900K

With Intel's 12th Gen Core processors now out in the open, overclockers have been getting their hands on the new CPUs and racing to set new records. This week, overclocker 'Hicookie' posted the most impressive result yet, pushing a Core i9-12900K to 8GHz and following it up with DDR5 memory running at 8300 MT/s. 

Intel has now stepped into hybrid CPU architectures with Intel 12th Gen desktop processors. Now, rumours about AMD's future Zen 4D and Zen 5 architectures are beginning to emerge, with Zen5 poised to be AMD's own hybrid processor combining performance cores and efficiency cores.  In Moore's Law Is Dead‘s latest …

During a recent stream, MSI brought to light some additional details on Intel's 12th Gen Core CPU design. There are a number of SKUs in the line-up, but there also seems to be different die types depending on the core count.  During the MSI Insider stream, MSI showed that Alder …

According to reports this week, new AMD EPYC processors are on the way and early leaks seem to indicate that they may not be the most friendly for your electricity bill. A well-known AMD datacentre product leaker is claiming that the upcoming EPYC “Turin” CPUs will come with a maximum …

Intel has finally pulled the curtain on its 12th Gen Core series, unveiling its first desktop hybrid processors. During the launch event yesterday evening, professional overclocker “Splave” had the chance to tinker with the Core i9-12900K, pulling off a 6.8GHz overclock and breaking the world record on the Geekbench 5 …

We were invited to an Intel event in London and we walked away with a Core i9-12900K, i7-12700K and a i5-12600K, with benchmarking already underway ahead of the review next week. It's time to dive a bit deeper into the CPUs and Z690 chipset though, so buckle in...

After months of leaks and rumours, today Intel is officially launching its 12th Gen Core series desktop processors, otherwise known as Alder Lake. With Alder Lake, Intel is making a major transition, introducing a hybrid architecture that combines performance and efficient cores to elevate performance across all major categories. Beyond …

Many CPU cooler manufacturers announced they will give out LGA1700 mounting kits for free if you own an Intel Alder Lake CPU and a selected cooler. This is usually a good idea, as it allows PC builders to reuse their current CPU cooler, rather than being forced to buy a new one. However, early reports seem to point to cooling issues when bringing older AIO coolers to the LGA1700 platform. 

AMD just announced it will hold a new event focusing on future data centre products. Although the company didn't specify what it would show during the event, leakers believe it will include the Epyc “Milan-X” processors with 3D V-cache and the Instinct MI250 HPC GPUs, marking the announcement of the …

Intel is expected to launch its 12th Gen Core desktop processors in just a few days time, but early benchmarks are already giving us some a good idea of what to expect. Over the weekend, new Core i5-12600K benchmarks surfaced, showing favourable performance up against the Ryzen 5 5600X.  New …

An alleged benchmark result of the upcoming Intel Core i9-12900HK recently appeared online. Based on the benchmark result alone, the upcoming flagship mobile CPU could be quite the beast, outperforming all mobile CPUs in the market, including the Apple M1 Max. The alleged benchmark result of the Core i9-12900HK comes …

It looks like some people are getting their Intel 12th Gen Core CPUs sooner than they should.  A few users have been uploading photos of retail samples of the Intel Core i9-12900K and Core i5-12600K to social media. We also seem to have confirmed specifications for the Core i9-12900K The …

While the jury is still out on whether or not AMD will release Ryzen Threadripper 5000 (Chagall) series processors, it would seem that at the very least, Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000WX series processors are on the way. This time around, the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5975WX was spotted on Geekbench, sporting …

With the launch of Intel's 12th Gen Core processors swiftly approaching, those with early samples are starting to share information and benchmarks a bit more freely. The latest leak details overclocking the Core i9-12900K, and the amount of power the chip consumes when overclocked.  A poster on Bilibili (via @9550pro) …

The Ashes of the Singularity benchmark database never ceases to surprise us. An entry featuring an Intel Core i9-12900H laptop CPU has been found in the database, confirming it will come with 20x CPU threads and giving us a glimpse at how it performs. According to the entry found by …

Currently, AMD's best CPU for laptops comes with 8 cores, but it looks like that will change with the Ryzen 7000 mobile generation. Codenamed “Raphael-H”, these Zen 4 chips are rumoured to double the core count for laptop processors, reaching as high as 16 cores.  The rumour originated from @NiceMing, …

Since launching the Apple M1 processor last year, many rumours have surfaced about what's next. While we expected an upgraded 'M1X' chip at some point later this year, it turns out Apple was actually working on two new SoCs - the M1 Pro and the M1 Max, bringing up to a 70 percent boost in CPU performance. 

This week, Corsair is announcing its own support for the upcoming Intel LGA 1700 socket, which will launch in a couple of weeks alongside Intel Alder Lake processors. While other cooler manufacturers are offering free mounting upgrade kits to customers, Corsair users will have to pay a small fee to …

In celebration of Ryzen's 5th anniversary, John Taylor, AMD CMO, and Robert Hallock, director of technical marketing, discussed the past, present and future of Ryzen processors, confirming some interesting things along the way. 

Until now, we've mostly covered leaked benchmark results of the Core i9-12900K and the i7-12700K. However, this time we have the i5-12400, which, according to these results, is going to be very competitive against the Ryzen 5 5600X.  A post found on Bilibili by @9550pro shows CPU-Z, Cinebench R20 and …

We've seen a number of leaks regarding the Intel Core i9-12900K in recent weeks, but this time around, we finally have some results for the Core i7-12700K thanks to a leaked CPU-Z screenshot.  Compared to the i9-12900K, the i7-12700K feature four less efficient cores and should come with slightly lower …

Over the years, we've seen many, many early benchmark results for unreleased processors all coming from Geekbench. Engineers and testers have used Geekbench to test pre-release hardware for years, but since the database is accessible by everyone, this also leads to a lot of leaks. To combat this, Geekbench is …

Windows 11 was released a few days ago and is already being associated with performance issues in certain hardware configurations. AMD confirmed this week that there are some performance issues when running Windows 11 on Ryzen-based systems, which can see performance in some games drop by up to 15 percent.  …

We are still a month away from the rumoured launch date of the Intel 12th Gen Core processors, but it looks like Amazon is already getting everything ready. Listings of the upcoming 12th Gen Core “K” processors were found on multiple Amazon stores, revealing the pricing of Intel next-gen SKUs. …

What seems to be a leaked roadmap referring to Intel mobile consumer CPUs has been posted online, corroborating some rumours. Moreover, the roadmap also shows when production of the Alder Lake mobile platforms will start, giving us an idea of when we will see the first devices equipped with them. …

While many expected new Ryzen Threadripper 5000 CPUs to launch this year, plans may have changed. According to reports this week, AMD's upcoming Threadripper “Chagall” processors may have been delayed to 2022.  None of this has been confirmed by AMD, but @greymon55 believes we won't see the AMD Ryzen Threadripper …

The same leaker that shared the first Cinebench R23 single-core benchmarks for the Intel core i9-12900K has recently posted CPU-Z screenshots of the upcoming processor paired with 32GB of DDR5-8000 memory. According to the CPU-Z screenshots shared by @hw_reveal, the system featured a Gigabyte Z690 Tachyon motherboard. The DDR5 memory …

Intel has been quietly working away on neuromorphic computing for years now, resulting in the first dedicated silicon, Loihi, back in 2018. Now this year, Intel is introducing Loihi 2, which brings significant improvements to performance, efficiency and more importantly, software and programming support to really push what this processor …