Intel Core i9-12900K

Today is a busy day for the industry, with Intel’s 12th Gen processors now officially available, alongside new DDR5 memory kits and a whole raft of Z690 motherboards. Here we’re focusing on the CPUs though, and specifically Intel’s new consumer flagship part, the Core i9-12900K. With eight Performance cores and eight Efficiency cores, and a tota...

Intel delivers with its new hybrid Alder Lake architecture, a CPU that beats down the best AMD has to offer and at a cheaper price.

The Intel Core i9-12900K is an outstanding high-end CPU, with Intel offering typically high single-core speeds while also seeing a major boost to multi-threaded workloads to challenge AMD’s Ryzen range. Top it off with superb future-proofing by way of PCIe 5.0 and DDR5, and you have a fantastic chip that offers excellent jack-of-all-trades perfo...