Tests of new Intel products were published ahead of time: the gap from AMD is minimal

Today, November 4, at 16:00 Moscow time, the embargo on the publication of tests and reviews dedicated to new Intel processors will be lifted. But, as often happens, it was not without violations – the well-known blogger Linus Tech Tips (14 million subscribers on YouTube) published a video with tests of Intel Core i9-12900K and i5-12600K seven hours before the fall of the embargo. Of course, after 19 minutes, the blogger deleted this video, but the subscribers managed to cut screenshots with tests, results and other details. It turned out that there is actually no incredible performance gain in comparison with AMD’s flagships.

Test bench configuration

It is worth clarifying right away that the test bench at Linus Tech Tips is very impressive – the blogger used flagship motherboards, DDR4 RAM was installed for AMD processors and the previous generation of Intel processors, while Intel Core i9-12900K and i5-12600K were already launched on DDR5. At the same time, all tests were carried out on Windows 11, but, which is quite important, after the release of the patch from AMD and Microsoft, which fixed the problem with the performance of the “red”. And as you can see from the tests in games, the increase in FPS is actually minimal – in some cases it is less than 5%, so it will be very problematic to notice the difference between the AMD and Intel flagships without graphics.

In addition, it is worth noting one important point – all the tests that were demonstrated in the video were carried out in games at 1080p (Full HD) resolution on a flagship NVIDIA RTX 3090 graphics card. a reasonable choice, the difference in frame rate would be even less noticeable. Moreover, in a real use case with an RTX 3070/3080/3080 Ti graphics card, the RTX 3090 is not really meant for video games, the difference between AMD and Intel would be only a few frames per second.

But this is not the most interesting thing – the fact is that when it comes to tests of power consumption and temperatures, Intel processors turn out to be head and shoulders above their potential competitor in any of the categories. In most tests, the Alder Lake models consume noticeably more power, which, of course, affects the temperature level – the difference in the benchmark test graphs is simply catastrophic. Accordingly, a potential buyer will have a choice – to get about 5% performance gain in games on Intel flagships, or to take an analog from AMD, but with a lower TDP and the ability to use more affordable cooling.

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