Intel's 14nm era is about to end. The remaining 14nm desktop CPUs from the blue team, which mostly consist of 10th Gen Core non-K CPUs, will soon be discontinued. Moreover, Intel is also discontinuing the 12th Gen Core flagship processor, the Core i9-12900KS. Intel's Core i9-12900KS was once the fastest …
Read More »CPU-Z updated ahead of Intel Core i9-12900KS and Ryzen 7 5800X3D launch
After 20 years of existence, CPU-Z has finally reached version 2.0, and within its patch notes, something caught our eye. According to the changelog, the developers have introduced support for the unreleased Intel Core i9-12900KS and the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, suggesting an imminent release. Besides the two new processors, …
Read More »Intel Core i9-12900KS benchmark puts it ahead of the i9-12900K by over 10%
Geekbench results of the Core i9-12900KS have recently been spotted, and as expected, they are slightly above what we would expect from the original i9-12900K/KF chips. Overall, single-core performance seems to have improved by about 5%, but the multi-core score gains over the original i9 chip are over 10%. The …
Read More »Intel is teasing 5.5GHz clock speeds for Core i9-12900KS
Last month, we shared a rumour about Intel releasing a pre-binned version of the i9-12900K. Named i9-12900KS, this new SKU would come with an all-core maximum clock speed of 5.2GHz, but according to a tweet from the chip company, it looks like the maximum single-core might be slightly higher, set …
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