Check out Intel’s new Core i9-12900KS flagship Alder Lake CPU
Newegg has a new Intel flagship processor available right now that surpasses the Intel Core i9-12900K. This new king of Alder Lake is the Intel Core i9-12900KS, priced at $799.99. As spotted by our partners over at Tom’s Hardware, this is just shy of $200 above the asking price of the now relegated Core i9-12900K.
But what’s different with this new CPU? Intel has managed to bump the clock speeds for both Performance and Efficient cores, hitting a Turbo Boost Max 3.0 speed of 5.5GHz. It has the same 16 core hybrid configuration with eight Golden Cove performance cores and eight energy-efficient Gracemont cores clocked at 3.4GHz and 2.5GHz, respectively.
In order to achieve this 5.5GHz boost clock speeds, Intel is making use of the company’s new Enhanced Thermal Velocity Boost technology, which will likely require BIOS updates on supporting motherboards. This puts Intel in quite the comfortable position against AMD with a comparable offering to the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, which itself struggled to completely outmatch the Core i9-12900K.
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