{"id":130060,"date":"2021-11-05T05:23:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T12:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/the-intel-12th-gen-core-i9-12900k-review-hybrid-performance-brings-hybrid-complexity"},"modified":"2021-11-05T05:23:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T12:23:31","slug":"the-intel-12th-gen-core-i9-12900k-review-hybrid-performance-brings-hybrid-complexity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/the-intel-12th-gen-core-i9-12900k-review-hybrid-performance-brings-hybrid-complexity","title":{"rendered":"The Intel 12th Gen Core i9-12900K Review: Hybrid Performance Brings Hybrid Complexity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-intel-12th-gen-core-i9-12900k-review-hybrid-performance-brings-hybrid-complexity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today marks the official retail availability of Intel\u2019s 12<sup>th<\/sup> Generation Core processors, starting with the overclockable versions this side of the New Year, and the rest in 2022. These new processors are the first widescale launch of a hybrid processor design for mainstream Windows-based desktops using the underlying x86 architecture: Intel has created two types of core, a performance core and an efficiency core, to work together and provide the best of performance and low power in a singular package. This hybrid design and new platform however has a number of rocks in the river to navigate: adapting Windows 10 Windows 11 and all sorts of software to work properly, but also introduction of DDR5 at a time when DDR5 is still not widely available. There are so many potential pitfalls for this product, and we\u2019re testing the flagship Core i9-12900K in a few key areas to see how it tackles them.<\/p>\n<p><b>Let\u2019s Talk Processors<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Since August, Intel has been talking about the design of its 12<sup>th<\/sup> Generation Core processor family, also known as Alder Lake. We\u2019ve already detailed over 16,000 words on the topic, covering the fundamentals of each new core, how Intel has worked with Microsoft to improve Windows performance with the new design, as features like DDR5, chipsets, and overclocking. We\u2019ll briefly cover the highlights here, but these two articles are worth the read for those that want to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the official retail availability of Intel\u2019s 12th Generation Core processors, starting with the overclockable versions this side of the New Year, and the rest in 2022. These new processors are the first widescale launch of a hybrid processor design for mainstream Windows-based desktops using the underlying x86 architecture: Intel has created two types [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}