The Intel Core i9-12900KF has proved itself to be the cream of the crop as Alder Lake processors have occupied the top five places in the current PassMark CPU Mark single-thread performance chart and the top six positions for average bench percentage over at UserBenchmark. Both benchmarks have been criticized in the past for showing perceived bias toward Intel SKUs though.
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