Intel not only reduced the inconvenience it had in multithreading with AMD with its new Core 12 processors, but it managed to upend the dominant status quo of its rival and walked away. But there is a new threat on the horizon with Zen 3+ or also called Zen 3D, so many of its partners already have the latest weapon against AMD in their hands: the Core i9-12900KS.
Intel’s loyal partners would already have in their hands what would be the ultimate weapon against AMD in 2022, a new processor that will further increase performance, so in a way Intel fears AMD. This new processor will be based on the current i9-12900K where your improvements will be very brief, but sufficient to keep the performance crown, at least on paper.
AMD’s doubt and Intel’s movement
There are many doubts, too many, on what AMD will present at CES 2022 and especially on the fact that there is NO leak of the new Zen 3+ for desktop. We have the first data on a Ryzen 6000U processor compared to its previous series counterpart and although it is basic the differences were + 4% for these new processors.
The problem will not be so much in multithreading as in gaming, at least according to what AMD reveals. In multithreaded the difference at the top of the table is barely 1% on average, with special cases of greater distance yes, but where one wins the other is sent back elsewhere, resulting in almost a technical draw where Intel wins by the bare minimum, which is a big milestone when you look at where the i9-11900K was a year ago.
Therefore, AMD will give a little push at this point to get above and another much bigger to improve in the game, where an average of 15% more is expected, which Intel does not want. not allow. Where does this i9-12900KS come from, but what novelty does it bring?
Intel Core i9-12900KS
The improvements are as expected minimal in this sense and in terms of the number of cores or the type of them, nothing changes, everything is maintained. Changes are introduced from the frequency in PL1 and PL2, where it has logically increased while keeping the base in the same place. So this i9-12900K will have all 5.2GHz P-Cores as standard, which means 200 MHz more than the simple version K, but as seen from the output of this frequency, it depends a lot on the workload and the resulting temperature.
Record the TAU of this processor and see how the original i9-12900K behaves which reverts to 4.8 GHz at specific times, it is more than likely that we have a frequency on the 5 GHz supported. Keep in mind that this effect can be achieved with settings in BIOS such as All sync cores from ASUS and other brands, except that the resulting final voltage will surely not be the same because Intel will have left the best chips for this i9-12900KS.
Ultimately and as we saw in the previous KS, these will be serial chips, so we will have the best that Intel puts on the market against AMD.
