Intel Alder Lake Core i9-12900K shown to be 56% faster than AMD Ryzen 9 5900X in Time Spy CPU, but gaming advantages over Ryzen 9 5950X seem miniscule with Radeon RX 6600 and DDR4 RAM

[Redaktion]

Early benchmarks of the upcoming Intel 12th gen Alder Lake Core i9-12900K in combination with AMD's just announced Radeon RX 6600 GPU were posted on Chinese social media. The results show good gains for the Core i9-12900K compared to the Ryzen 9 5900X, Ryzen 9 5950X, and the Core i9-11900K in 3DMark CPU tests. However, real-world gaming benchmarks do not seem to show very high differences, especially when paired with DDR4 RAM.

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[Mundus]

There is currently no way to do a fair comparison. Since Alder lake is not 100% on windows 10 and Ryzen loses performance in windows 11. Wait like 5-6 months and see which is best.

[liljom]

Well, with an RX 6600 it's no surprise that there's no big difference in gaming performance. The tests seem to be GPU bottlenecked

[rk]

It seems like this is might be related to DDR5 latency issues.