Intel’s 16-core flagship Alder Lake i9-12900K processor delivers a staggering performance improvement over it's predecessor (+70% 64-core). It features a new hybrid architecture which combines eight hyper-threaded performance cores with eight efficiency cores for a total of 24 threads. Alder Lake CPUs will require a new Z690 chipset which supports DDR5 memory and PCIe 5.0. At an MRSP of $590 USD, the i9-12900K is aimed at power users who demand the best of the best. That said, Intel’s 10-core 12600K matches the 12900K’s performance for the majority of consumer use cases at a 50% price discount. [Nov '21CPUPro]
For it's age it's fairly decent. Ive been running a laptop with this cpu since 2016 and it's served me well ever since. Ive even been able to do some light gaming (mostly talking older games like Fallout New Vegas or Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion) on this thing. The rest of my laptop is loaded with 8gb RAM and an SSD, and its been serving me well.
For general use and very light gaming, its pretty good. Ive considered upgrading since my laptop is beginning to show it's age, but it's still plugging along buy and large. [Jul '19KingBowser24]
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