In brief: Alder Lake'south performance is slowly coming into focus equally more than benchmark results prove upwards online. Although Intel has notwithstanding to reveal its twelfth generation Cadre processors, it looks like the pinnacle-cease Core i9-12900K could offering significantly better performance in some games compared to AMD'south current flagship CPU, the Ryzen 9 5950X.

Dorsum in July, it transpired that Intel'southward Core i9-12900K Alder Lake CPUs were already on sale in Prc. Since and so, we've seen a number of declared benchmarks of the new chip. As we become closer to the official reveal next month, more results are popping up online, and all of them propose that Intel has a big winner on its easily.

Early on benchmarks showed the new xvi-cadre, 24-thread flagship CPU has the potential to challenge AMD'south Zen three powerhouse -- the sixteen-core, 32-thread Ryzen 9 5950X. Nevertheless, most of these tests were performed on Geekbench's v5 suite, which tin can just offering a rough thought of the general performance you can expect out of a CPU.

This week, someone performed a fix of Ashes of the Singularity (AoTS) benchmarks on an alleged Cadre i9-12900K sample. The results were spotted past Twitter user @9550pro (thank you, Tom's Hardware), and they seem to indicate the Core i9-12900K will be significantly faster in some games than the AMD counterpart.

To put things in context, Stardock recently updated Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation to version three.1, which allows the game engine to utilise up to xvi cores simultaneously to make draw calls to the GPU. Previously, the game was just able to utilize up to half every bit many cores, so performance should see a pregnant uplift for systems equipped with CPUs that have more than eight physical cores.

It certainly looks to be the example with the Core i9-12900K, which scored over 14,000 points when paired with Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3080 in the AoTS criterion using the High 1440p preset. That's nearly 39 percent faster than AMD's Ryzen 9 5950X paired with the same GPU.

As impressive as they seem, these results should be taken with the proverbial grain of salt, as we only know surface-level details about the test systems. Furthermore, the Alder Lake part will also accept to evidence its value in productivity workloads, energy efficiency, and cooling requirements against AMD's current offerings.