Many will note that Intel made this pivot away from rendering performance only when eclipsed by AMD’s stellar Ryzen CPUs. Intel’s rationale has long been that so few people actually use these applications on a PC, that it’s silly to consider them as a meaningful measurement of performance for people. We’ll kick this off in an area that Intel rarely likes to talk about: 3D rendering and modeling.
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AMD’s Precision Boost Overdrive feature was set to auto and we selected the AMP memory overclocking profile.
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And for those who would scream, “testing should only be done on Windows 10 for Ryzen!” Hardware Unboxed also noted that Windows 11 performance is generally 5 percent better for Ryzen than Windows 10.įor the AMD Ryzen system, we used an MSI MEG X570 Godlike board updated with latest BIOS and 64GB of DDR4/3600 Corsair Dominator dual-rank RAM. We fortunately didn’t run into it, but it felt worth mentioning. While we were testing, popular Youtube channel Hardware Unboxed reported that it had run into an issue where AMD’s Windows 11 元 cache bug returned if a processor swap was conducted with Ryzen.
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In the end though, a new patch and drivers that have corrected Ryzen 5000’s issues on the new OS meant we conducted our tests only in Windows 11 today. With the introduction of Windows 11 and its associated teething issues, it’s been a bit of a messy review cycle. Our review of the Core i5-12600K will soon follow. 12th-gen Alder Lake also ushers in a new era of features, including PCIe 5.0, DDR5 memory, and a new LGA1700 socket.įor this review, we’ll be focusing on the main event, dialing in on the performance of Intel’s Core i9-12900K. But a better way to think of Alder Lake is that it’s Intel’s first “Intel 7” process desktop CPU with a completely redesigned big core, and for good measure, a bunch of extra efficiency cores that can perform as well as its previous 10th-gen cores thrown in too. Ever since rumors of Alder Lake first leaked, people (including ourselves) have wondered just what Intel was thinking by mixing its long-anticipated upgraded cores with “Atom-like” efficiency cores. ( Intel 7 used to be called 10nm before a rebrand.) It mixes newly designed high-performance CPU cores with smaller, more efficient cores to achieve an optimal balance of performance-to-power ratios. That alone is a huge deal after spending over half a decade mired on 14nm transistor technology, Alder Lake finally leaps up a node.
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You’ll want to read our coverage of Intel’s 12th-gen Alder Lake reveal for the full nitty-gritty details of the radical new architecture, but it’s essentially a hybrid CPU design built on the Intel 7 process.